Sunday, 1 July 2018

Facebook quizzes may have exposed 120 million users personal information

Facebook's data privacy woes continue to grow as a security researcher uncovered the social media's popular "tests“ not only told users which Disney princess they were, but also exposed the private data of about 120 million people who took the test.

Inti De Ceukelaire blogged on Medium that nametests.com, the site behind the ubiquitous Facebook time killers, just fixed a flaw that was exposing data. The researcher said he is a participant in Facebook's Data Abuse Bounty Program, which was created after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and as such decided to see what offerings on the site might be a privacy problem.

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