Facebook pulls its Onavo Protect VPN app from Apple’s App Store

Facebook has removed Onavo Protect – a VPN app for iOS – from the App Store after Apple claimed it violated its policies, reports The Wall Street Journal. The app, which Facebook acquired back in 2013, claimed to protect users while they were browsing by blocking harmful sites, warn them about phishing scams, and prevent hackers from snooping on their web traffic. However, it reportedly violated Apple’s guidelines for apps, which don’t allow them to gather user data into databases and sell it to third parties. It also came under fire for running analytics on the traffic that it routed…

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