Your Private & Friends Data Was Shared With 61 Apps, Even After Facebook Said It Wasn't Sharing

It seems like nothing Facebook says to defend itself from the data privacy data fallout of Cambridge Analytica is true anymore.

According to a new document, Facebook continued to break its promises to users about how it was handling their private data.

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When news first broke that Cambridge Analytica was using private Facebook data, Facebook's explanation that it had plugged the policy hole that allowed apps to exploit users in 2015. After 2015, Facebook's policy didn't allow apps to collect user or their friend's data on the social network.

But in a document it presented to the U.S. House of Representatives, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of two different US Government Committees, Facebook has admitted that it continued giving users' friends data to 61 app developers as much as six months after the policy change.?

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Facebook says it allowed app makers to scrape your friend's data for an additional six months to allow companies time to get used to their new privacy policy.

Just last month The New York Times revealed that Facebook?apparently has data-sharing partnerships with 60 device makers, including Apple and Microsoft, giving them access to information of users and even their friends.

Add to that this latest news about Facebook allowing tens of app developers continued access to scrape through your friend's data, and we soon start to wonder whether your Facebook data is private at all.