Facebook Inc banned apps from running personality quizzes of the kind that spurred the Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal in an attempt to strengthen the social media platform’s privacy and security.
“Apps with minimal utility, such as personality quizzes, may not be permitted on the platform,” Facebook’s Eddie O’Neil said April 25 in a blog post. In the future, apps will also be forbidden from asking for data that doesn’t directly “enrich the in-app user experience”, he said in the post.
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