Facebook Says 100 Software Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data

Facebook on Tuesday said that as many as 100 software developers may have improperly accessed user data, including the names and profile pictures of people in specific groups on the social network. CNBC reports: The company recently discovered that some apps retained access to this type of user data despite making changes to its service in April 2018 to prevent this, Facebook said in a blog post. The company said it has removed this access and reached out to 100 developer partners who may have accessed the information. Facebook said that at least 11 developer partners accessed this type of data in the last 60 days.

"Although we've seen no evidence of abuse, we will ask them to delete any member data they may have retained and we will conduct audits to confirm that it has been deleted," the company said in the blog post. The company did not say how many users were affected.

Move fast

[Anachronous Coward]

and break things.

Only

[AHuxley]

the good censor and select approved ad brands know what good things to do with users social media data?

More than one-hundred

[Chromal]

When you get right down to it, all 2nd- and 3rd-party data access at Facebook is improper, and so I suspect the number is just a bit higher than one-hundred individuals performing infraction and exfiltration of private user data.

Re:

[AHuxley]

So social media becomes the publisher of users content when its under the social media sites own ads, brand and censorship.
When its "2nd- and 3rd-party" "exfiltration of private user data" its all about the users own data and suddenly full privacy protection is working again?

Re: More than one-hundred

[e3m4n]

Translation:

how dare you access this data without paying us for it. That is tantamount to property theft. You took our property without paying. The information on our dumbass peons, errr customers, is available at a cost. You sir are someone stealing cable without paying for said service.

Fuck the system

[AndyKron]

Developers improperly accessed user data? You're kidding. Really? What prize do they get?

In response ...

[fahrbot-bot]

... Facebook has decided to utilize the developer's skills and moved them to the "Improper Data Access Team."

Facebook

[beep54]

Delete it. Just delete it. It is a cancer that is terminal. This will just keep happening over and over.

Re:

[kot-begemot-uk]

Have you read the USA Visa criteria lately. If you do not have a social media profile and if you used more than a couple of email addresses in the last 5 years you are automatically considered subversive.

Facebook is the modern day equivalent to the TV as described in 1984. You have to pay attention to it just like people had to "pay attention" (quotes needed) to the USSR news at 9. We lived there for a couple of years and I now understand why my dad always turned the news on at 9 even if there was nobody

Re: Facebook

[e3m4n]

I say we take off a nuke the entire site from orbit. Itâ(TM)s the only way to be sure.

What? Facebook's not deleting their accounts?

[scdeimos]

Isn't theft of user data what got the accounts of NSO employees deleted? How's this any different? Or is it only theft when governments are the victims?

Re: What? Facebook's not deleting their accounts?

[e3m4n]

Its not that they accessed it, its that they didnâ(TM)t pay for access. Cambridge Analytica paid for that very dame data.

Often times..

[Anonymous Dotter]

People have always wondered why I left Facebook in 2012. This is just one of many shining examples as to why.