Facebook Suspended About 200 Apps That Potentially Misused Your Data
Facebook announced on Monday that it suspended "about 200" third-party applications from its platform "pending a thorough investigation into whether they actually misused any information."
The announcement comes almost two months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company would investigate "all applications that had access to large amounts of information" before the social network changed its policies in 2014, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal He saw the data of up to 87 million Americans that the data analysis company inappropriately accessed.
"We have large teams of internal and external experts who work hard to investigate these applications as quickly as possible," Ime Archibong, vice president of product partnerships at Facebook, wrote in a blog post. "Where we found evidence that these or other applications misused the data, we will prohibit and notify people through this website."
Archibong added that Facebook had investigated "thousands of applications" to date, and also wrote that any application that does not accept an "exhaustive audit" would also be banned.
It is not clear how long the Facebook review process will take for third-party applications. "There is much more work to be done to find all the applications that may have misused the Facebook data of people," Archibong wrote, "and it will take time."
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