Facebook bans personality quiz apps after Cambridge Analytica scandal

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Facebook is taking steps to ban personality quiz apps from its platform, more than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

to say that apps with “minimal utility,” such as personality quizzes, will no longer be allowed. The update also states that apps can no longer ask for user data that doesn’t “enrich the in-app or user experience.”

The investigation was prompted by reports that a third-party app called “This is Your Digital Life” , which encouraged users to complete a personality quiz, collected personal information from users and their network of Facebook friends. More than 620,000 Canadians had their data improperly shared in the scandal, which affected 87 million users worldwide.

 

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