Shutting off Facebook’s access to Apple devices would be a radical step, tantamount to declaring war on a major competitor. Would temporarily cutting off Facebook’s Apple apps be an effective deterrent? And Facebook’s Onavo VPN app was pulled from Apple’s App Store last year for excessive data collection. (IPhone users could still access Facebook’s products through their mobile web browsers.) Time and time again, Facebook has shown that it cannot be trusted to protect users’ privacy unless it is forced to do so.

Source: New York Times January 31, 2019 00:45 UTC