Facebook Again Failed to Protect Data of 3 Mn Users
Barely two months after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook is the subject of another data controversy as a third-party app in the form of a personality quiz, was able to collect and distribute sensitive Facebook data from over 3 million people.
The data contained Facebook users’ answers for the personality trait test, and while it didn’t disclose the users’ names, it did contain their age, gender and relationship status. Additionally, status updates of over 150,000 users were exposed.
The data was supposed to be shared and used among approved researchers exclusively through a specially designated website for that purpose but, reports suggest that a username and password to access the side could be found “in less than a minute” on any search engine, therefore meaning that ...