Facebook suspends ‘tens of thousands’ of apps from 400 developers over improper data use

Sep 20 2019 by The Verge

 
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Facebook today announced that it has suspended “tens of thousands” of apps as part of an ongoing investigation into improper data use on the part of third-party developers. The investigation is part of a broader effort the company embarked on last year in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, which involved a political consulting firm purchasing data on tens of millions of Facebook users that had been collected,...

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