Apps and games on Facebook gain access to less data

Apps and games on Facebook will now have access to less data by default. Facebook foreman Mark Zuckerberg announced this in response to the scandal surrounding the data collection of analytics company Cambridge Analytica.

For example, games and services only have access to the name, profile picture and e-mail address. If developers want more data, such as access to posts, they have to sign a contract. In addition, if users have not used apps for three months, developers will no longer have access to those users’ Facebook data.

Reducing access is one of the measures Facebook foreman Mark Zuckerberg announced in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. That company got its hands on data from 50 million Facebook users when it bought data from a game that several hundred thousand people had played. The game had access to data from contacts of those users, bringing the total number of profiles to fifty million.

In addition, Facebook is going to take a closer look at developers who had access to a lot of user data until 2014. In addition, users will see the existing tool at the top of the news overview in the coming days to see which apps have access to their data. That permission is also easy to withdraw. By putting that tool at the top, users should have better control over their data.

Zuckerberg announces that more measures will follow in the coming days to reduce the access of apps and games to Facebook data. It is unknown what measures these are. Zuckerberg claims that with the current rules large data collection such as Cambridge Analytica is no longer possible.