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Facebook Groups members’ info left exposed to 100 app developers

Tuesday, November 5, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Facebook Groups members’ info left exposed to 100 app developers

Facebook has revealed that an unspecified number of third-party apps from as many as 100 developers may have improperly accessed Groups members’ data without adequate permissions to do so. The social media behemoth said it found 11 developers to have gotten hold of group members’ information in the last 60 days, based on an ongoing review of third-party access to Facebook user data. It has since cut off all the partners from accessing this information. Facebook brought about major changes to third-party developer access in the wake of Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It restricted those that use the Groups API to…

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Authored by Piyush Suthar
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