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So Facebook has a comprehensive access control system in the internal APIs. As part of the FTC consent decree, Facebook has been doing sweeps of all data types
by ummonk 5y ago
So Facebook has a comprehensive access control system in the internal APIs. As part of the FTC consent decree, Facebook has been doing sweeps of all data types and having the owners of those data types tighten up the access control rules on those data types - particularly, product teams have to remove access control checks that aren’t fine grained enough. I’m guessing one such change broke the ads research tool.
- pm90 5y agoWhy didn’t they fix it rather than revoke access permanently?
- ummonk 5y agoMaybe they were unable to get privacy approval for this access, maybe it was too much work to do so, maybe they didn't realize it would break the tool and this is just an unexpected regression. (I don't work there anymore, so I'm just speculating - but I do have experience with the continuous waves of privacy work that every product team would be assigned)