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Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by dsypa on Friday December 20, 2019 @04:20AM (#21842740)
This is like the Cambridge Analytica scandal: people allowed 3rd party apps to access their data and then they complain when, eh, they had their data.

Solution? Facebook closed the API. And now people complain that Facebook is a silo and they hold onto your data and they don't allow 3rd party apps to access it.

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Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by hurricanetc on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:44AM (#21844038)
That’s an oversimplification. The Facebook API had a gaping hole in it that allowed third party apps to access data on the authorized user AND friends.

Facebook discovers these kind of issues on a regular basis. The idea that they’ve clamped down on this type of thing is the joke of 2019.

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Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by altcognito on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:02AM (#21843824)
Facebook could have restricted 3rd party access to only those applications that had given permission, or provided a way to manually export it so users would become familiar with a process they should probably know anyway.
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Re:267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online by aledalgrande on Friday December 20, 2019 @08:32AM (#21843967)
Or they could have a sound app review process like Apple.
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