Facebook shuts off user data access for hundreds of thousands of apps
by Lisa Vaas | NakedSecurity
Aug 2, 2018
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Hey, all you Facebook user-data drunks: last call! Facebook’s shutting you down until you get up off that bar stool and submit to its app review process.

Back in May, Facebook announced that all apps using the Facebook Platform APIs would need to go through the review, to “better protect people’s Facebook information,” as the platform put it…

…which many of us translated to mean “don’t be Cambridge Analytica-ing us!” …as in, maybe we fell asleep at the wheel while the data-analytics firm was breaking our policies by siphoning off (and selling!) user data, but we’re way woke now.

Facebook set a deadline of 1 August to submit existing apps for review. Wednesday dawned, and what Facebook found was hundreds of thousands of apps lolling around in didn’t-submit land.