You probably know by now that Facebook basically runs by siphoning any data you allow it to.

Now, after months of being dragged through the mud for privacy violations, they have a new app you can volunteer for, that pays you to take your data.

Study is an app you can download and install on your phone, which will monitor which other apps you use, for how long, and what features you seem to like. This is aside from other details like your country of residence, age, and income bracket.

Facebook says it won’t see any specific content you peruse like messages, passwords, or websites you visit, it just looks at your app usage patterns. How much you choose to believe that is up to you, given their past history.

The idea behind this is for Facebook to conduct market research, so it can see what you like about its competitors, and therefore what features it needs to improve (or steal).

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Study’s launch comes just a few months after a TechCrunch report outed them for a different privacy violation. It involved a VPN app marketed to teens that relied on a special certificate on the iPhone to gain deeper access to users’ devices. That report resulted in the shut down of the app involved, Facebook Research.

Clearly, the launch of Study shows that Facebook still believes it really needs all that data on how people use their phones. At the very least, they seemed to have retained the lessons they learned in the past. Study will only be available to people 18 and up (consenting adults), it’ll only be on Android, and the opening screen will reportedly detail just what kind of data it collects and how it will be used.

Study will verify a user’s age based on their Facebook account, Users will also need to have a PayPal account they can register with the app in order to receive payments. The company also specifies that, though it will cross-reference with other data it knows about you, the new information it gathers won’t be linked to your identity or used to target you with ads.

The app is launching in the US and India first. Though Facebook reassures that “all research participants are compensated,” it doesn’t specify how much that payment will be. It won’t be available to everyone either. Facebook will target some people with an add for the app (based on their volunteer requirements) and clicking on it to sign up is the only way to join.

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