Facebook Reports Progress on App Developer Probe
September 20 2019 - 2:10PM
Dow Jones News
By Josh Beckerman
Facebook Inc. (FB) said it has made "meaningful progress" in its
app developer investigation that began in March 2018 as part of the
company's response to Cambridge Analytica issues.
"We initially identified apps for investigation based on how
many users they had and how much data they could access. Now, we
also identify apps based on signals associated with an app's
potential to abuse our policies," the company said.
Facebook said the investigation has addressed millions of apps,
and tens of thousands of those have been suspended.
The company said the apps that have been suspended are
associated with about 400 developers, and "this is not necessarily
an indication that these apps were posing a threat to people." Many
of the apps weren't live, and in many cases, apps were suspended
because developers didn't reply to a request for information.
Write to Josh Beckerman at josh.beckerman@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 20, 2019 13:55 ET (17:55 GMT)
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