Facebook launches new market research app months after shutting down controversial VPN app
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Facebook launched a new market research app called Viewpoints, just a few months after the company introduced an Android data collection app called Study, which was designed to monitor what and for how long users are accessing other software on the Google-owned operating system. The company shut down a market research app ostensibly offered as a virtual private network (VPN) provider in January after it sparked controversy.