Facebook has rolled out new settings to appease users after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In wake of the scandal, it's important to know which apps have access to your personal data and make the appropriate privacy changes to your account.
Read also: Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and data mining: What you need to know (CNET) | News Feed algorithm changes could make it harder for businesses to market on Facebook (TechRepublic)įacebook apps can bleed your information without you knowing. It was collected by a stealthy personality prediction Facebook app called "thisisyourdigitallife." Personal data accessed from Facebook users included profile names, locations, and information on their friends and the content they liked. That has been the problem Facebook has been dealing with all year.Facebook user data was accessed - without explicit user permission - by Cambridge Analytica to help Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. "The problem is that the bug that has allowed it to be shared more widely. Obviously, that shouldn’t be shared, you have not given consent," she told ABC News. Let’s say I’m in Facebook and I upload a photo as a draft. Gennie Gebhart, a researcher with Electronic Frontier Foundation, was not as concerned about the unposted photos. This is happening because they are having developers have access to their platform without having standards and safeguards to what developers have access to." ”Facebook just wants as much data as possible and just isn't careful with it. "It’s another example of FB not taking privacy seriously enough," Bannan added. "Those are pictures someone actively decided not to show other people and Facebook is still storing that and accidentally giving it to third-party developers. "The breach exposed pictures that were uploaded, but chosen not to actually share," Christine Bannan, the Electronic Privacy Information Center's counsel, told ABC News. Privacy advocates expressed concern about yet another incident in which app developers were able to access more user information than was authorized. "The only apps affected by this bug were ones that Facebook approved to access the photos API and that individuals had authorized to access their photos." The social media giant also said the photo bug may have affected "up to 6.8 million users and up to 1,500 apps built by 876 developers," the statement said. With reference to these data breaches, including the breach in question, we have this week commenced a statutory inquiry examining Facebook’s compliance with the relevant provisions of the GDPR," Graham Doyle, the Irish Data Protection Commission's head of communications, told ABC News in an emailed statement.įacebook's European headquarters are in Dublin, so its lead European regulator is Ireland. "The Irish DPC has received a number of breach notifications from Facebook since the introduction of the GDPR on May 25, 2018. It is the first major test of the European Commission's new data protection rules, or the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Meanwhile, European regulators confirmed Friday that they are investigating Facebook for violating its new privacy regulations.
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