A couple of documents unsealed yesterday by plaintiffs in California privacy user profiling litigation offer details on a handful of apps Facebook audited and internal reports on what it discovered.
The revelations offer a glimpse into the no-privacy zone. When a “sketchy” data company helped itself to millions of users’ data, the vast majority of whom had no idea their information had been harvested for voter-targeting experiments, Facebook was in charge. According to the filings, both firms created apps for Facebook’s platform that appeared to have extensive access to users’ friends’ data, implying that they would have been able to acquire data on far more Facebook users than had downloaded the apps themselves — including potentially sensitive information.
