Sentences with phrase «tighten app permissions»

And in 2011 and 2012, following a legal complaint by European privacy campaigner and lawyer Max Schrems, Facebook was urged by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to tighten app permissions to avoid exactly the kind of friends data leakage that has now scaled into this major privacy scandal.

What's curious is that since March 17, 2018 — when the Guardian and New York Times published fresh revelations about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, estimating that around 50M Facebook users could have been affected — Facebook has released a steady stream of statements and updates, including committing to a raft of changes to tighten app permissions and privacy controls on its platform.

So why did it take Facebook from September 2012 — when the DPC made its recommendations — until May 2014 and May 2015 to implement the changes and tighten app permissions?

The result of those data audits included a recommendation that Facebook tighten app permissions on its platform, according to a spokesman for the Irish DPC, who we spoke to this week.

In mid 2015 the company finally tightened app permissions» settings for all developers on its platform.

The privacy watchdog also recommends Facebook tightens app permissions on its platform, including to close down developers» access to friends data

In mid 2015 the company finally tightened app permissions» settings for all developers on its platform.

Not exact matches

Facebook's policies previously allowed developers to siphon off app users» Facebook friends data — though Facebook tightened up these permissions in 2014 — «to dramatically reduce data access», as founder Mark Zuckerberg has now claimed — though evidently not dramatically enough for Mozilla.

We started approving these permissions in 2014, but now we're tightening our review process — requiring these apps to agree to strict requirements before they can access this data.