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

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

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https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/20/facebook-suspends-apps-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 profiles scraped to help swing undecided voters in favor of the Trump campaign during the U.S. presidential election in 2016.