Security News > 2018 > May > Careless researchers expose millions of Facebook users’ sensitive data

If you needed another reason to stop sharing intimate information with apps on Facebook or Facebook itself, consider this newest revelation: academics at the University of Cambridge have been using the data harvested through myPersonality, a popular personality app, as a basis for a tool used for targeting adverts based on personality types. Access to the tool was reserved for those who paid for it but, by now, we’re all used to companies earning money … More → The post Careless researchers expose millions of Facebook users’ sensitive data appeared first on Help Net Security.

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