Facebook Restricts Data Access As It Admits Abuse Was Rampant

[Lucian Armasu]

Facebook announced a series of changes, as it acknowledged the many problems its platform had, from the ease with which developers could access user data to how much information it collects in less-than-transparent ways.

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[dextermat]

Too little too late, breach will happen again... Very sad that companies are not reliable anymore.

 

[redgarl]

Facebook take your phone data when you agree to login to facebook with your phone... that is disturbing. Is google or amazon doing the same thing to?

 

[therickmu25]

Is it news to anyone that Facebook makes money from selling your personal information? Also, this Cambridge story only has traction because supposedly it gave data to Republicans. A sin amongst the left leaning tech elites. Every American's data was harvested in 2012 for the sake of 'good', aka Obama administration research, not just people who signed up voluntarily for a quiz app. They were lauded as geniuses and bragged how cleverly they obtained all of your person data.

 

[JohnMD1022]

"Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered"
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/facebook-data-scandal-trump-election-obama-2012/

"The president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before."
Maxine Waters

Busted.

 

[th3p00r]

@JohnMD. exactly, everything obama did was golden