He claimed that going forward, the tech company will more closely monitor vendors scraping massive numbers of profiles and audit
any suspicious app activity.
Not exact matches
In a statement on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg said the company was going back and investigating
apps that had access to «large amounts» of user data and planned to audit any
app connected to «
suspicious activity.»
Zuckerberg's plan is to investigate all
apps that had access to large amounts of information before Facebook changed its data sharing policies in 2014 and to conduct an audit of any
app that shows
suspicious activity.
Mr. Zuckerberg said Facebook would be «investigating many
apps, tens of thousands of
apps, and if we find any
suspicious activity, we're going to conduct a full audit of those
apps to understand how they're using their data and if they're doing anything improper.
Facebook also announced that it was investigating
apps that had gained access to large amounts of its data in the past, and said it was conducting an audit of any company that it believed has shown
suspicious activity.
We will conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity.
Mr. Zuckerberg has stated that Facebook will «investigate all
apps that had access to large amounts of information» and «conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity,» which sounds promising but will only be effective with the technical tools and personnel to carry that out.
«We will investigate all
apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity,» Zuckerberg wrote.
NYC will offer a free
app this summer that warns smartphone users about
suspicious activity on their devices — one of the first public actions by the NYC Cyber Command unit that de Blasio established last year.
She also suggested developing mobile
apps to allow people to summon help — something like a cell - phone equivalent of a panic button — and to report
suspicious activity.
Still, Zuckerberg says Facebook will «conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity,» though what that actually means is anyone's guess.
While they do monitor your account for
suspicious activity and offer zero fraud liability and chip protection, they don't offer alerts or even a mobile
app.
The
app providers need to keep user records for at least 60 days at a time and report any illegal or
suspicious activity to the CAC.
The social network will «conduct a full audit» of any
app with «
suspicious activity» and will ban any developer that does not comply with the full audit.
We will investigate all
apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform in 2014 to reduce data access, and we will conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity.
«We will investigate all
apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform to dramatically reduce data access in 2014, and we will conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity,» Zuckerberg wrote.
It will also conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity.
Facebook also will audit any
apps that display
suspicious activity and notify any users affected, he said.
The company, he added, «will conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity» and probably will need to hire more workers to complete the audits.
Dehaye questioned how Facebook would define which
apps merit investigation and what would constitute «
suspicious activity.»
It will conduct full audits of any
apps that appear to engage in «
suspicious activity,» and any developer that doesn't agree to an audit will be banned from Facebook.
Zuckerberg says the company will audit any
app with
suspicious activity and ban any developer that does not comply with an audit.
It will also conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity and ban developers who don't agree to an audit.
Users can possibly hope to be alerted the next time there's a data leak via an
app — even though it remains unclear what will determine the «
suspicious»
activity that will cause the red flags to go up.
Zuckerberg's plan is to investigate all
apps that had access to large amounts of information before Facebook changed its data sharing policies in 2014 and to conduct an audit of any
app that shows
suspicious activity.
The company will investigate
apps that had access to «large amounts of information» before the 2014 changes, Zuckerberg said, and audit any
apps that show «
suspicious activity».
Again, Facebook has now promised to alert users impacted by
suspicious activity; it had failed to do so in 2015, when news first broke about Kogan's
app.
Facebook has promised a full audit of
apps that show
suspicious activity, and will ban the
app and its developers if those suspicions are confirmed.
Investigating all
apps which were approved for data access before the company restricted it in 2014, auditing them for similar
suspicious activity
But we're going to be investigating and reviewing tens of thousands of
apps from before 2014, and assuming that there's some
suspicious activity we're probably going to be doing a number of formal audits, so I think this is going to be pretty expensive.
Facebook will conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity and if something is found amiss, the developers concerned will be banned from the network.
Zuckerberg did anticipate planned future action in the form of three initiatives to secure user data: 1) they will conduct a an audit of any
app that had access to large quantities of information before they secured their API in 2014, making sure there is no
suspicious activity, 2) they will restrict developers» data access further, asking them to sign a contract and adding an expiry date to third party connections on
apps you may no longer use, 3) they will launch a new tool (one already exists but is somewhat obscured within Facebook's security settings) next month that will help users better understand which
apps have your data, and giving you easy access to revoke those permissions.
You can see a web
activity for the most popular websites visited,
suspicious and blocked pages, searches, PC
activity (time spent on the computer), most used
apps and games, Windows Store
app usage (if applicable), and finally notifications.
Facebook is currently trawling its records to see if there is any evidence of
suspicious activity in relation to any other
apps that had less restricted access to Facebook at the same time as «thisisyourdigitallife».
We will conduct a full audit of any
app with
suspicious activity.
The
activity logs in my Google Home
app did not show any
suspicious or inadvertent recordings, either, so it appears that I did not encounter this bug.
Zuckerberg also said the company would investigate all
apps that had access to «large amounts of information» prior to the changes made in 2014 and that Facebook would conduct a full audit of any
app with «
suspicious activity.»
«We're going to go now and investigate every
app that has access to a lot of information from before we locked down our platform, and if we detect any
suspicious activity we're going to do a full forensic audit and make sure that nobody out there is improperly using data, and that, I think, is the responsibility that we have to people in our community.»