Facebook: suspends over 400 apps; bans 'myPersonality'
(CercleFinance.com) - Facebook said it has suspended more than 400 apps, due to concerns around the developers who designed them or how users' information may have been used.
In an update on the current app investigation, Ime Archibong - Facebook's vice-president in charge of product partnerships - said the social network is now investigating "in much greater depth" the suspended apps.
In the meantime, the company has decided to ban myPersonality — an app that was mainly active prior to 2012 — from Facebook for failing to agree to its request to audit.
"It's clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place," Facebook said.
The company plans to notify the roughly 4 million people who chose to share their Facebook information with myPersonality that it may have been misused.
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In an update on the current app investigation, Ime Archibong - Facebook's vice-president in charge of product partnerships - said the social network is now investigating "in much greater depth" the suspended apps.
In the meantime, the company has decided to ban myPersonality — an app that was mainly active prior to 2012 — from Facebook for failing to agree to its request to audit.
"It's clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place," Facebook said.
The company plans to notify the roughly 4 million people who chose to share their Facebook information with myPersonality that it may have been misused.
Copyright (c) 2018 CercleFinance.com. All rights reserved.