I took the time to read the EULA for the "Intel Driver and Support Assistent" on Windows and they monitor which websites you visit! In fact, if I'm reading their privacy notice, they obtain data from any software you run on their CPU at any time.<p><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000023000/software/software-applications.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...</a><p><a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/privacy/intel-privacy-notice.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/privacy/intel-privac...</a>
Well, I assume now that the EU DMA is a thing, Facebook would reconsider distributing their actually malware laden binaries (instead of simple ads/analytics) through their own app store.<p>There was a similar incident[1] (for which I can't unfortunately locate the original source) where Uber tried embedding an exploit to retrieve IMEI numbers without consent, which was caught by Apple's review process. So while there may be some legitimate complaints, the review process does keep the worst behavior out of their curated app store.<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/KAsKPwfkiDw?t=433" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://youtu.be/KAsKPwfkiDw?t=433</a>
I'm skeptical. Doing this would be illegal, and wouldn't comply with FB's own privacy policy. Unless the usage of Pegasus were limited strictly to the network requests made while Onavo was enabled.