Facebook reported that the bug was shared with the authors of the application users ‘ personal data. Information about the people who ceased to use the programs, got to about 5000 developers.
In 2018, the company imposed restrictions on access to data users: if a person does not go to the app within 90 days, the authors no longer receive update information about the user. However, in some cases, the ban didn’t work.
For example, this could occur if someone used a fitness app to invite your friends from your hometown for training, but we did not recognize that some of his friends inactive for many months, — stated in the message Facebook.
Developers received access to data such as gender and language, however, the company argued that they had not found evidence that the incident referred to the information on the exchange where the user did not give permission for the initial login via Facebook.
The company has eliminated the problem the next day after her discovery.
Earlier NEWS.ru said that Facebook decided to close the app Lasso, which was positioned as a “clone” of the Chinese service of short clips TikTok. It will cease to be available to users on July 10.
