Facebook reportedly pulling off this VPN app from Google Play Store

San Francisco: Following the scandalous revelation where Facebook was found to have been collecting data from teenagers using the “Facebook Research” app, the social networking giant is now reportedly ending its unpaid market research programmes and taking its Onavo virtual private network (VPN) app off the Google Play Store.
Onavo was acquired by Facebook in 2013 for a reported $200 million to use its VPN app to gather data about what people were doing on their phones.
“Facebook has decided that giving users a utility like a VPN in exchange for quietly examining their app usage and mobile browsing data isn’t a wise strategy. Instead, it will focus on paid programmes where users explicitly understand what privacy they’re giving up for direct financial compensation,” TechCrunch reported on Saturday.