Facebook to publish data on Irish abortion referendum ads

referring to Not all of the companies are device makers; some make operating systems or other software. Before the data sharing was discontinued, Apple, for example, allowed Facebook users to download profile photos for their friends and use them in their iPhone contact lists. Some BlackBerry devices appeared to access several categories of data, including messages. The release Saturday morning was the second batch of questions that Facebook has submitted to Congress since Zuckerberg's appearance before Congress. Reports about the sharing of data with device makers sharpened that scrutiny.

Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data was accessed from Russia, MP says

Related: Facebook broke the law and faces maximum fine for Cambridge Analytica scandal, UK watchdog saysRevelations about the collection and use of the data threw Cambridge Analytica and Facebook into crisis earlier this year. While also working at Cambridge University, Kogan held a professorship at St. Petersburg State University. Kogan denies handing over the Facebook data he gathered for Cambridge Analytica to any Russian entity, saying it is possible that someone in Russia could have accessed data from his computer without his knowledge. The university would not comment on the specific claim that the data Kogan gathered had been accessed from Russia. Facebook has asked the ICO what evidence there is the Facebook data was accessed in Russia, CNN understands.

Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data was accessed from Russia, MP says

Facebook gives US lawmakers the names of 52 firms it gave deep data access to – TechCrunch

as informed in Last month the New York Times revealed that Facebook had given device makers deep access to data on Facebook users and their friends, via device-integrated APIs. Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who made the quiz app which harvested Facebook users' data in 2014 so that he could sell the information to Cambridge Analytica, has argued Facebook did not have a valid developer policy because it was not actively enforcing its T&Cs. And certainly the company is admitting it made fewer checks on what developers were doing with user data vs companies it selectively gave access to. Among the developers getting extra time to suck on Facebook friend data were dating apps, chat apps, games, music streaming apps, data analytics apps, news aggregator apps to name a few…1. PeekSocial"We are not aware that any of this handful of companies used this access, and we have now revoked any technical capability they may have had to access any friends' data," it adds.

Russian company could have accessed Facebook data on millions of Americans, source says

Mail.Ru Group developed hundreds of Facebook apps, some of which were test apps that were not made public, Facebook said. Facebook told CNN it has not found any evidence of misuse of Mail.ru's data. Related: Russian company had access to Facebook user data through appsMail.Ru told CNN Wednesday that it is cooperating with Facebook for its investigation. However, Facebook told CNN it granted two Mail.Ru apps an extension of two weeks beyond that deadline. Facebook would not say on Tuesday how much user data the Mail.Ru Group obtained or if any data was obtained about Americans.