A couple of weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg made a statement following the realization that Facebook's platform was used to influence the outcome of the 2016 United States election. Today, Facebook offers a more specific look at how exactly it is restricting users' data from falling into the wrong hand while admitting that at least 87 million accounts' information were improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica (70 million accounts were of the US).
A lot of user data was available through APIs, or Application Program Interface, which would allow third parties to pull information from various modules of Facebook like Events, Friend lists, Groups, and Pages. Facebook is restricting the data available to third-parties from these modules as well as making it harder for anyone to hack in using weak account recover options.
Facebook login will now explicitly require approval from the user before allowing information like check-ins, photos, videos, post, events, and groups from being shared with a third-party. Also, starting today, third-party apps are no longer allowed to request access to personal information like religious./political views, relationship status, fitness activity, custom friend lists, education/work history, music listening activity - basically anything that would expose your personal likes or dislikes.
In the next week, developers will no longer have access to any user's information if their app has not been used in three months.
Here are a few other things that Facebook is doing to protect user data:
Check out the Source 1 link for the Facebook Newsroom post or check out Source 2 for a technical breakdown of everything that Facebook is doing moving forward.
Lol at people trusting their data to a sigle entity. IMO it's impossible for them to not use them... it's human nature. In fact Zuckeberg himself confessed that the point of facebook was (at first) to watch other people... Seriously now, ce...
Information is Power and it was not only affected with US elections, Brexit was involved too with other big Europien elections. Worst is, that people willingly accept to give info, because they usually don't bother or don't care to read, until is too...
Hahaha people think by deleting there accounts its all good, you've in fact deleted nothing they have all your info photos and messages you have participated in since you have been using Facebook!!
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