Facebook has now released a new research app called Study From Facebook. The app will help to analyse what apps are on a person’s phone.

 

It will also check how much time a person spends on their phone, their country, their type of device and their network provider. The app is only available on Android for users 18 years and older in American and India.

 

The users will still get paid for sharing their information and can leave anytime they want.

 

A now-banned Facebook research app reportedly paid users for their information. Meanwhile, the app paid $20 monthly for data on how they used their phones.

 

Apple blocked Facebook from gaining access to iPhone users in 2018. This was after the Facebook app collected sensitive device data on about 187,000 users.

 

Facebook wrote a letter on 1st March 2019 to United States senators. It said it collected data on 31,000 users in the US. They admitted that a record 4,300 of them were teenagers while the rest were from India.

 

 

One of the American senators that got the letter, Richard Blumenthal expressed concern over the new market research app.

 

He responded in an email statement saying, “After its previous app was rightly taken down and blocked from operating, Facebook moved more quickly to reintroduce a market research product than it has [moved] to provide any substantial consumer privacy protections or resolve the significant abuse on its platform.”

 

“At a time when the company is under investigation for its data practices and anticompetitive actions, the Facebook Study app is at best tone-deaf and ill-considered,” Blumenthal added.