Settles claims Facebook gave a false impression over control of personal information accessible to third-party developers
Facebook Inc. will pay $9 million as part of a settlement with the Competition Bureau about misleading claims the company made regarding privacy controls on the social networking platform.
The news release from the Bureau also says, “Facebook also allowed certain third-party developers to access the personal information of users’ friends after users installed certain third-party applications. While Facebook made claims that it would no longer allow such access to the personal information of users’ friends after April 30, 2015, the practice continued until 2018 with some third-party developers.
Cambridge Analytica was accused of obtaining data scraped from Facebook using a research application, and then using that data to create psychological profiles of users, in an attempt to target ads and influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and the United Kingdom Brexit referendum.
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