How to see all the weird apps that can access your data on Facebook

Over the years, you’ve probably logged into a lot of services on Facebook without thinking about how those services use your data. Some of those services may have leveraged your data to undermine the very foundations of American democracy. Hard to say!

New reports from the Guardian and New York Times reveal how a Trump-aligned data-gathering service called Cambridge Analytica “exploited” information from millions of people in the lead-up to the 2016 election. It was pretty simple: The firm created a personality test app called “thisisyourdigitallife,” and people opted in to take it, granting the app permission to scrape their personal data in the process. It also harvested their friends’ data. Read more…

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