
#TOR APP FOR FACEBOOK FOR ANDROID#
'We commonly receive requests for additional platform support beyond the browser, and thanks to a project initiated by a summer intern at Facebook and subsequently picked up by our Protect and Care team in London, we are now offering experimental support for using Facebook over Tor via the Orbot proxy app for Android devices.' Tor has no plans to support Facebook's mobile app for Apple Inc's iPhone, Krauss said.įacebook said in a blog post that a 'sizeable community' has grown around its feature launched in 2014, which allowed users to access its site via Tor on PCs. 'This will allow people to choose whether to share their location or not. 'Everybody in the world needs more privacy online and almost everybody is on Facebook, Krauss said via Signal, an encrypted messaging service.


Kate Krauss, a spokeswoman for the Tor Project, a group of developers that oversees development of the anonymity software, said Android support could help expand Tor due to Facebook's large following.įacebook has more than 1.5 billion monthly active users.
