Facebook Starts Blocking Sensitive Medical Data Shared by Apps Over Privacy Concerns
Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, said a report.
By Agence France-Presse | Updated: 20 February 2021 12:12 IST
The block list contains more than 70,000 terms, including diseases, bodily functions, medical conditions
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Flo Health app informed Facebook when a user logged starting her period
The block list contains more than 70,000 terms
Facebook has started blocking sensitive health information that third-party apps had been sharing with the social network in violation of its own rules, said New York officials who investigated the situation.