Meta and Yandex are facing intense scrutiny after a team of academic researchers revealed that both tech giants exploited a ...

Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica are analytics scripts designed to help advertisers measure the effectiveness of their campaigns ...

Android user web browsing data may have been provided to Meta and/or Yandex due to a "loophole" in the operating system's ...

Even hardened digital privacy veterans said they were stunned by Meta’s tactics. Researchers recently caught Meta using ...

Meta and Yandex secretly bypassed Android privacy protections to track user activity via embedded website code, linking web data to app identities even in private mode., Technology & Science News - Ti ...

Meta, Yandex Covertly Tracked Billions of Android Users, According to Researcher Your email has been sent A report highlights how Meta and Yandex bypassed privacy and security controls to ...

This allows Meta and Yandex to link a user's browsing history directly to their app account, even when users are browsing in private or incognito modes.

A hidden tracking method in Meta’s Android apps may bypass private browsing and VPNs, raising serious privacy and legal ...

In the researcher's words, “These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of websites. These ...

Meta appeared to have been doing the data tracking for around eight months, while Yandex had since 2017, the academics said. "We found that Facebook was doing it on roughly 16,000 websites when ...

The companies use Meta Pixel and the Yandex Metrica scripts, which are embedded on 5.8 million and 3 million websites, respectively, to connect with their native apps on Android devices through ...