Facebook clamps down on personality quizzes to plug data leaks

The Next Web
By Ravie LakshmananApr 26, 2019, 7:56 am85 pts
Facebook is taking baby steps to plug data leaks on its platform. In a new blog post that was posted yesterday, the company’s director of product management Eddie O’Neil wrote that it will be subjecting apps with “minimal utility,” such as personality quizzes, to heightened scrutiny and “may not be…

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