The Facebook Inc. logo is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph taken in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Monday, April 23, 2019. As Facebook Inc. prepares to report first-quarter results Wednesday, analysts are confident that the social-media company has moved past negative headlines that dogged the stock throughout the second half of 2018 and is positioned to monetize its massive user base in new ways. Photographer: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg
New York’s attorney general is opening an investigation into Facebook Inc’s unauthorised collection of 1.5 million users’ email contacts without their permission.
The email harvest may have exposed hundreds of millions of people to targeted advertising by the embattled social-media company, New York Attorney General Letitia James said April 25 in a statement.
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