6 Nov 2019 01:55
Facebook quietly discloses another serious privacy breach
As many as 100 developers may have had improper access to Facebook user data due to an oversight in the way permissions were revoked, according to a post on the company's developer blog on Tuesday.
The names and profile pictures of people in certain Groups on the platform, linked with their activity in those Groups, were still accessible to some software developers - despite the company changing access parameters back in April 2018, Facebook's director of platform's partnerships Konstantinos Papamiltiadis wrote.
Of the "roughly 100 partners" who had retained user data access through the Groups API over the past 18 months, "at least 11 partners accessed group members' information in the last 60 days," the post said. Read more...More about Facebook, User Data, Tech, Social Media Companies, and Big Tech Companies http://bit.ly/2WNW8Fa
The names and profile pictures of people in certain Groups on the platform, linked with their activity in those Groups, were still accessible to some software developers - despite the company changing access parameters back in April 2018, Facebook's director of platform's partnerships Konstantinos Papamiltiadis wrote.
Of the "roughly 100 partners" who had retained user data access through the Groups API over the past 18 months, "at least 11 partners accessed group members' information in the last 60 days," the post said. Read more...More about Facebook, User Data, Tech, Social Media Companies, and Big Tech Companies http://bit.ly/2WNW8Fa
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