Facebook has a lot of cleaning up to do in the wake of #deletefacebook,
declining user trust, and a falling stock price — and after the first step of reorganizing its privacy settings, Facebook is now ditching the partner categories that allowed third - party data companies to use data gleaned elsewhere to advertise on Facebook.
Not exact matches
As the
users weren't notified, TechCrunch says this raises the question of whether it was a «breach of
user trust», to which Zuckerberg
declined to comment.
Today's announcement follows a series of backlash against Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica news came to light, with a UK Parliamentary committee calling for CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify, Facebook stock tanking and erasing billions off its market value, and
user trust in the company continuing to
decline.
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