Washington Post via MSN: “Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices. No one, including Android owner Google, knew that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps were siphoning people’s data through a digital back door for months. (After the researchers publicized their findings, Meta said it stopped.) It’s not novel that Meta is undermining your privacy. But the tactics the researchers identified were so scuzzy they surprised even those digital privacy experts who have seen every trick in the book. “It’s such a gross violation of people’s basic expectations,” said Peter Dolanjski, a product director for DuckDuckGo, which makes a privacy-focused web search engine and web browser. I’ll explain how researchers found Meta’s tricks and suggest a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy. This episode, though, is bigger than just one company. The research findings show that even after years of revelations about companies turning your phone into an always-on surveillance device, the problems are maddeningly persistent…”