Apple has a lot of iPhone ads on security and privacy, and we know it has very strict rules. However, some technology companies do not care about these rules. According to two new class action lawsuits filed against Facebook's parent company Meta, iPhone users are being tracked through the Facebook and Instagram apps using a hidden loophole. When users reach a site via the in-app browser on Facebook and Instagram, javascript code is placed on the site without the user's knowledge, allowing Meta to track everything.

Last year, Apple released a new privacy policy called app tracking transparency (ATT for short), which requires app developers to ask users if their data can be tracked. Big tech companies lost billions of dollars because of Apple's privacy decision. Meta alone lost $10 billion. Being able to track what users are doing online is an important revenue stream for companies that rely on ads to make money. Apple and Meta have been in contention with each other since then over the app tracking issue. Claims uploaded to Meta do not only mean that they are breaking Apple's policies, they are also breaking the relevant laws as Meta collects user data without permission.

Meta denied the allegations

It is widely known that Instagram and Facebook's in-app browsers have this security issue. This incident, which was also revealed by Meta's security researchers, is a privacy violation for us, but Meta absolutely does not accept these claims. The parent company of Facebook and Instagram states that the in-app browser is designed to respect the user's privacy preferences.