Facebook Says 5,000 App Developers Got User Data After Cutoff Date

Social media giant Facebook disclosed on Wednesday a new user privacy incident. The company said that it continued sharing user data with approximately 5,000 developers even after their application's access expired. From a report: The incident is related to a security control that Facebook added to its systems following the Cambridge Analytica scandal of early 2018. Responding to criticism that it allowed app developers too much access to user information, Facebook added at the time a new mechanism to its API that prevented apps from accessing a user's data if the user did not use the app for more than 90 days. However, Facebook said that it recently discovered that in some instances, this safety mechanism failed to activate and allowed some apps to continue accessing user information even past the 90-day cutoff date. Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, VP of Platform Partnerships at Facebook, said engineers fixed the issue on the same day they found it.

That not the privacy disaster

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

The privacy disaster is Facebook itself. Its sharing a bit too much of the vast ocean of private data it possesses on everybody with 5,000 developers is just a minor loss of income for them.

Legal Protections Required.

[BardBollocks]

There needs to be a complete shift - zero knowledge services that neither collect, collate, retain transactional or resell user data.

Sure - things like facebook would die off, but honestly - is that a bad thing considering the privacy disaster, surveillance disaster and misinformation factory it has become?

Surprising

[Growlley]

the number of times things fail to work properely for Facebook allowing them to milk th einformation for all its worth and gets fixed the second time after that point.