Facebook Banned the myPersonality App, Will Notify Users of Potential Data Misuse

The application allowed people to take personality quizzes

Facebook announced that it has banned the myPersonality application as part of its ongoing app investigation triggered by the Cambridge Analytica scandal that broke out in March 2018.

Following the revelation that millions of Facebook users had their information accessed by Cambridge Analytica without their permission, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network would investigate all applications “that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity.”

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