An international research collaboration has recently uncovered a potential privacy abuse involving Meta and the Russian tech giant Yandex. They found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps such as Maps, Navi, Browser, and Search—silently listen on fixed local ports on mobile devices to de-anonymize users’ browsing habits without consent.
Privacy abuse involving Meta and Yandex discovered
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