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Authorized the app. we also required developers to get approval from us before they could request any sensitive data from people. these actions would prevent any app like kogans from being able to access so much data today. in 2015 we learned that the journalists at the guardian that kogan had shared data from his app with cambridge analytica it is against our policies for developers it to share data with peoples consent so we immediately banned kogans app from our platform and demanded that kog...

To third parties -- this is the game facebook is in. if you dont have that, you dont have facebook. whats so sort of complicated and what makes that statement necessarily so long and so sort of conv. luted is that he is trying to maintain a company that is always vulnerable and has been vulnerable from the beginning to the kind of exploitation we saw by dr. kogan and cambridge analytica. he can reduce outside parties ability to access that data, try to come up with penalty for those who break ru...

More apps should be social. your calendar should be able to show your friends birthdays, your maps should show where your friends live and your address book should show their pictures. we enabled people to log into apps, share who their friends were and some information about them. in 2013, a cambridge analytica -- rather cambridge university researcher aleksandr kogan created a personality quiz app. it was install bid 300,000 people who shared their data as well as some of their friends data. g...

Hired to confirm this. were also working with regulators to investigate what happened. this was a breach of trust between kogan, cambridge analytica and facebook. but it was also a breach of trust between facebook and people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it. we need to fix that. in this case we already took most important step a few years ago in 2014 to prevent bad actors from access peoples information in this way. but theres more we need to do. ill outline those steps h...