A worrying number of popular Android apps share user data with Facebook without user consent, new research from Privacy International shows (via Financial Times).
Here’s the worst part: Staying off Facebook doesn’t protect you from this. …
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Facebook gives US lawmakers the names of 52 firms it gave deep data access to
In a major Friday night data dump, Facebook handed Congress a ~750-page document with responses to the 2,000 or so questions it received from US lawmakers sitting on two committees in the Senate and House back in April. The document (which condensed into a tellingly apt essence — “people data… Facebook information” — above, when […]
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Over the years, you’ve probably logged into a lot of services on Facebook without thinking about how those services use your data. Some of those services may have leveraged your data to undermine the very foundations of American democracy. Hard to sa…
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