Facebook Is Still Leaking Data More Than One Year After Cambridge Analytica

Facebook revealed Tuesday that roughly 100 developers may have improperly accessed user data by MichaelFNunez

... [+]Facebook said late Tuesday that roughly 100 developers may have improperly accessed user data, which includes the names and profile pictures of individuals in certain Facebook Groups.that developers primarily of social media management and video-streaming apps retained the ability to access Facebook Group member information longer than the company intended.

Facebook restricted its developer APIs—which provide a way for apps to interface with Facebook data—in April 2018, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke the month before. The goal was to reduce the way in which developers could gather large swaths of data from Facebook users. “Although we’ve seen no evidence of abuse, we will ask them to delete any member data they may have retained and we will conduct audits to confirm that it has been deleted,” Facebook said in a statement.

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