Facebook has suspended ‘tens of thousands’ of apps suspected of hoarding data

Facebook has suspended ‘tens of thousands’ of apps suspected of hoarding data


Facebook has suspended “tens of thousands” of apps connected to its platform which it suspects may be collecting large amounts of user profile data. That’s a sharp rise from the 400 apps flagged a year ago by the company’s investigation in the wake of Cambridge Analytica, a scandal that saw tens of millions of Facebook […]


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September 21, 2019 at 08:00AM

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