Facebook Data Leak

• Facebook bug may have exposed private photos of up to 6.8 million users

  The bug allowed some 1,500 applications to access private photos for 12 days ending Sept. 25, but has now been fixed, Facebook said.

  Dec 14, 2018
  
• Facebook suspends 200 apps in data misuse investigation — here’s what we know so far

  Facebook has not revealed which apps have been suspended, or when further information on them will be available.

  Tech

  May 14, 2018
  
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• Canada flagged Facebook’s third-party app privacy problem way back in 2009

  Canadian federal privacy officials warned that third-party developers' access to Facebook users' personal information "raises serious privacy risks" back in 2009.

  Tech

  Apr 5, 2018
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• Over 600,000 Canadians’ Facebook data shared with Cambridge Analytica in data leak

  Data from the Facebook accounts of about 622,000 Canadians was leaked to Cambridge Analytica in 2016, the platform says.

  Canada

  Apr 4, 2018
• Republicans concerned about Trump’s political consultants accessing Facebook data

  Several U.S. Republican lawmakers expressed concern over privacy violations.

  Politics

  Mar 18, 2018