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Data gathering biz still having trouble keeping data secure Facebook on Friday apologized for a bug that may have exposed exposed private photos to third-party apps for the 12 day period from...
Facebook's latest screw-up — a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 million users. Facebook today...
The bug allowed 1,500 apps built by 876 developers to view users' unposted "draft" photos.
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One such use would be to pre-stuff our devices with ads and other content before we wander into a Wi-Fi dead zone.
Italy's regulator found the social giant guilty of misleading consumers as to what it does with their data.
They said Facebook emphasizes the service being free, not that it's making big bucks off users' data. They ordered the company to apologize.
The company allegedly tried to hide away new policy changes that would collect Android app users' call and message logs.
The cache of seized Facebook documents show how Facebook whitelists certain companies so they can keep lapping up user data.