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Comment: Facebook investigation records show crash effort to probe app privacy in wake of Cambridge Analytica scandal

By Mike Swift
  • 29 Jan 2023 00:11
  • 29 Jan 2023 00:11
More than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal emerged, Facebook targeted for suspension more than 50,000 apps that may have had access to sensitive data of millions of users who didn’t consent to that access, according to newly unsealed court documents that illuminate Facebook’s crash program to understand the scope

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Mike Swift

Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent


Mike Swift is an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of covering data, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory news for more than a decade. As the Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent for MLex, in addition to reporting, he coordinates MLex’s worldwide coverage in the practice area. Formerly chief Internet reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and SiliconValley.com, Mike has covered Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies and has closely tracked technology and regulatory trends in Silicon Valley. He has wide ranging expertise from the business of professional sports to computer-assisted reporting. A former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, he is a graduate of Colby College.

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