Facebook, Onavo – How that Helps Zuckerberg Destroy Competition

Former Unit 8200 soldiers’ Onavo app was used by Facebook to track the usage of other apps by tens of millions of its users and then decided how to cope with potential competition, suit claims In July, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat before the U.S. House of Representatives’ subcommittee on antitrust, commercial and administrative law. One of the questions he was asked was whether Facebook’s acquisition of the Israeli firm Onavo gave his social media giant the ability to surveil users. Zuckerberg waffled, saying, “I’m not sure I’d characterize it in that way.” As part of an investigation scrutinizing the…