Facebook made a change to its Groups API (application-programming interface) after discovering that some apps were retaining information acquired through the API for longer than was intended.
Director of platform partnerships Konstantinos Papamiltiadis explained in a blog post that the social network made the discovery during its ongoing review of ways that user data is shared with outside companies.
Papamiltiadis said that prior to April 2018, group administrators could authorize apps for their groups, which gave the developers of those apps access to information.
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