Free security app 'knows nearly everything' about users, court told as Facebook owners Meta fined $20m
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The Federal Court hears Meta used a free security app promoted as protecting data but the tech giant used it to find out "nearly everything" users were doing on their devices.

There should have been a few more zeros in that fine.

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The government has taken your feedback and to show its goodwill has revised the fee to $000,000,000,0002.00.

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