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> First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014,
by dvt 9y ago
> First, we will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity.
> Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse.
> Third, we want to make sure you understand which apps you've allowed to access your data. In the next month, we will show everyone a tool at the top of your News Feed with the apps you've used and an easy way to revoke those apps' permissions to your data.
All of these points don't address what actually happened. It's not like CA had a feed of FB's user data. It was harvested. And saved. And data, like diamonds, is forever.
The problem is that FB simply has too much information about us. The #deleteFacebook moment is a wake-up call not so much for FB's tone-deaf execs, but moreso for the masses that (probably until now) never realized how much data FB has on every single one of us.