Facebook continues to improve privacy and suspends 200 applications for data misuse

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The social network is doing a huge job to clean up its image after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Mark Zuckerberg and his team remain focused on improving the privacy of millions of users who continue to use their services today.

In this case it is about the removal and suspension of about 200 applications that are allegedly being investigated for the inappropriate use of user data. These nearly 200 applications are now in the hands of those responsible for Facebook and for now they are deactivated to avoid possible problems.

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El release of the company is forceful with this type of applications and without a doubt it shows that they are working hard to clean the history and turn the page. This is not a simple task when the damage caused is so great, but you learn from mistakes and now what they want on Facebook is to turn the page as soon as possible, yes, detecting all possible problems related to the privacy of its users as soon as possible.

The data of three million users would have been leaked again

And is that this week the social network, NewScientist reported on a data filtering case similar to Cambridge Analytica, but in this case the number of affected users would be much lower, andThey are talking about three million users. The myPersonality application would be part of this new filtering of user information and although it is true we do not have more specific data about what happened, we do not think it is good to return to the same after the previous hard blow in terms of data security of the users. The application had been suspended for a few days due to these privacy-related problems, but this did not prevent the data from being leaked ...


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