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Wednesday 1 August 2018

Facebook cuts off access to user data for 'hundreds of thousands' of apps

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Facebook has just blocked a truckload of apps from accessing its user's data.

Facebook's VP of Product Partnerships, Ime Archibong, explained in a blog post Tuesday that Facebook had cut off API access for "hundreds of thousands of inactive apps that have not submitted for our app review process." That's a lot of random, dormant apps that had access.

The social media giant, which was once very open to developers until the whole Cambridge Analytica thing, announced in May during F8 that it was tightening up the review process for apps.

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/2018/07/31/facebook-user-data-apps/
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