Facebook suspends more than 400 apps over concern about developers and data
San Francisco — Facebook on Wednesday said it has suspended more than 400 of thousands of applications it has investigated to determine whether people’s personal information was being improperly shared. Apps were suspended "due to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been used", vice-president of product partnerships Ime Archibong said in a blog post. Apps put on hold at the social network were being scrutinised more closely, according to Archibong. The app unit launched in March by Facebook stemmed from the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. Facebook admitted that up to 87-million users may have had their data hijacked by Cambridge Analytica, which was working for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Archibong said that a myPersonality app was banned by the social network for not agreeing to an audit and "because it’s clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with...
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