44 Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit (nypost.com) posted 1 year ago by Gazerbeam 1 year ago by Gazerbeam +44 / -0 Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit The practice, known as “negative testing,” allows tech companies to “surreptitiously” run down someone’s mobile juice in the name of testing features or issues such as… 20 comments share 20 comments share save hide report block hide replies
IANAL , but I can't see how any of it is illegal. You gave them permission to run on your device. Wasting cycles isn't a crime, that I've heard of.
A lot of phones are preloaded with Facebook and its treated as required app you cannot uninstall. I still doubt the story, but many people aren't giving permission outright.