Meta sued for allegedly tracking Android users’ web browsing, reports Media Daily News
Meta was hit with a privacy lawsuit for allegedly secretly tracking users’ browsing activity on mobile websites that embed Meta’s analytics pixel, and linking that activity to users’ identities, reports Media Daily News.
“Between September 2024 and at least June 2, 2025, Meta was exploiting a communication channel … in the Android ecosystem to tie users’ browsing information to their persistent Facebook and Instagram profiles, rendering that browsing information completely non-anonymous and identifiable,” California resident Devin Rose alleges in a class-action complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
The complaint, states Media Daily News, came “the same day that researchers published the report “Disclosure: Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android,” which said Meta exploited localhost — a feature that allows software developers to test applications — to capture Android users’ mobile browsing data.
“Meta stopped the covert tracking the day the report came out, researchers said” in an update to the report.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook) owns a variety of social media and communication platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger.
