Facebook suspends, investigates CubeYou, another data-harvester
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/09/facebook_suspends_investigates_cubeyou_another_dataharvester/
Facebook's slow-motion privacy awakening continued over the weekend, with a data analytics outfit called CubeYou suspended from the "platform" pending investigation over T&C violations.
For some time, privacy advocates have warned that cute-and-popular quizzes linked from Facebook – “Which Star Wars weapon are you?” and the like – were populating the data troves of their hosts.
Facebook suspends, investigates CubeYou, another data-harvester
Apr 9, 2018, 4:17am UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/09/facebook_suspends_investigates_cubeyou_another_dataharvester/
>Facebook's slow-motion privacy awakening continued over the weekend, with a data analytics outfit called CubeYou suspended from the "platform" pending investigation over T&C violations.
>For some time, privacy advocates have warned that cute-and-popular quizzes linked from Facebook – “Which Star Wars weapon are you?” and the like – were populating the data troves of their hosts.