Knappzwei weeks ago, it was announced that Cambridge Analytica company had evaluated profiles of up to 50 MillionenFacebook users in order to influence alleged elections in England and Denusa. Now an internal Facebook investigation has revealed Dassoffenbar far more users have been affected. On Wednesday evening Schriebdas company, it could even be up to 87 million customers Betroffengewesen, most of m in US. You will soon be informed about possible misuse of your data above your newsfeed.
"We have only received a detailed overview of situation in past few days," said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a call with journalists on Wednesday evening, where time also participated online. That is why number originally mentioned in media had to be corrected upwards. The 87Millionen are now a deliberately highly esteemed number of users, who could oretically be affected by Derursprünglichen data recovery.
"The most important two questions that many Menschenderzeit are asking are wher we have our system under control and wher preventing can be manipulated," said Zuckerberg. The answer to both questions is, in principle, yes. Allerdingsgestand He also made mistakes: "We have not done enough against abuse. This applies to fake news as well as to Hatespeech and Datenmissbrauchvon developers. " He also underestimated risk of possible manipulation campaigns when he called accusations "crazy" some time ago.
The Facebook login is restrictedFacebook made a total of nine changes to ensure data derNutzer in future. "We believe se changes can better protect privacy of users," said chief technology officer MikeSchroepfer. Most adjustments mainly concern developers of apps that can access user profiles through a SogenannteEntwicklerschnittstelle (API). Facebook had bereitsgekündigt to want to restrict denZugriff. In future, third parties will only be able to access calendar of users and contents of VonGruppen and public pages after a detailed scrutiny by company.
Releasing mails important change concerns Facebook login. Many apps undWebsites, including dating Tinder, allow ir users to aware ir Facebook account. Via such a third-party app, Wurdenursprünglich also diverted user data that eventually landed at CambridgeAnalytica. In future, Facebook wants to check all apps that want to access logins, likes, photos, posts and videos. Details of training, DemArbeitsplatz, relationship status, music taste should in principle no longer be shared with third parties.
The social network also allows users and users to be able to delete apps associated with ir profile. So far, deletion was only Einzelnmöglich. All users should check settings, which are Diensteverknüpft and remove apps that are no longer in use.
Completely deactivates previous function to search for users based on e-mail addresses and phone numbers. This was practical, but it was also possible to make large-scale data queries. "This has revealed our investigation over past few days," said Zuckerberg. However, it was only possible to collect public profile data anyway.
If you use Messenger, you could also save your call and message data if you wish. Thus, service was able to keep friends with whom user communicated most, always at top of address book. After last week's reports that Facebook apparently saved this information for years, company has researched matter, writes technology chief Schroepfer. In future, all data will be deleted after one year and generally only most necessary for option will be saved. Meaning: no content.
Date Of Update: 05 April 2018, 12:03
