People who logged into This Is Your Digital Life shared their news feed,timeline, posts and messagesAleksandr Kogan collected direct messages sent to and from Facebook users who installed his This Is Your Digital Life app, or the Guardian can reveal. It follows Facebooks admission that the company “may” contain handed over the direct messages of some users to the Cambridge Analytica contractor without their express permission. The revelation is the most severe breach of privacy yet in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The social network admitted to the transfer of data in its warning to users whose friends had installed the This Is Your Digital Life app,which harvested data from not only the installer, but also all their friends on the site.
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Source: theguardian.com