Meta found a new way to violate your privacy. Here’s what you can do.

(Illustration by Natalie Vineberg/The Washington Post)

By Shira Ovide

Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices.

No one, including Android owner Google, knew that Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps were siphoning people’s data through a digital back door for months. (After the researchers publicized their findings, Meta said it stopped.)