MONTREAL: Facebook users may be targets of blackmail after changes that erode personal security protections on the world’s most popular social network website, Canada’s privacy czar warned.
In assessing Facebook’s announcement that it was embracing third-party integration, privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart expressed concern over how outside technology firms that develop games and other applications for the network could mine users’ personal data and keep it indefinitely.
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