{"id":354,"date":"2018-02-15T13:40:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2018-02-15T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:40:58","slug":"the-onavo-vpn-app-is-spying-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"The Onavo VPN app is spying on you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Facebook and Onavo include some details in their license agreement, I&#8217;m 100% sure no one realizes that Facebook is using Onavo to learn what apps users are using, and what sites they&#8217;re visiting. The whole point of a privacy VPN is to have privacy, not to expose everything to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not one for regulation, but it sure feels like this is dirty pool &#8211; killing competing apps in the cradle by knowing when they are getting traction, and then adding the functionality to Facebook so that they can take the market from the startup.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/02\/12\/facebook-starts-pushing-its-data-tracking-onavo-vpn-within-its-main-mobile-app\/\">TechCrunch article<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Facebook and Onavo include some details in their license agreement, I&#8217;m 100% sure no one realizes that Facebook is using Onavo to learn what apps users are using, and what sites they&#8217;re visiting. The whole point of a privacy VPN is to have privacy, not to expose everything to Facebook. I&#8217;m not one for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}