Facebook today stated that it had banned ‘myPersonality’ app from its platform. It stated in an announcement on its official blog that the Facebook app shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place. The app, mainly active prior to 2012, had failed to agree to Facebook’s request to audit, said FB.
Facebook announced that it would alert the roughly 4 million people who chose to share their Facebook information with myPersonality that it may have been misused.
Given we currently have no evidence that myPersonality accessed any friends’ information, we will not be notifying these people’s Facebook friends. Should that change, we will notify them, it stated in the post.
Facebook said it had investigated 1000s of apps since they launched their investigation in March & had suspended more than 400, adding that it was owing to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been used — “which we are now investigating in much greater depth.”
Facebook elaborated that it had changed many policies — such as expansion of App Review & their new policy that no information will be shared with apps if members had not used them in 90 days. The social media platform reiterated that it would continue to investigate apps & make the changes to “ensure that we are doing all we can to protect people’s information.”
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