Yes, it is another Facebook application capturing data from millions of users , this time it is a brand called NameTests.com that distributes Facebook questionnaires What Disney princess are you ?, and it has 120 million users month.
NameTests was exposing the data of its users for a years to third party. This includes names, birthdays, posts, photos and friends lists that the app collected and displayed in a JavaScript file easily accessible by a malicious third party.
Inti De Ceukelaire who is discovered this problem. tells that he tried to contact Facebook several times with this matter and that several times they replied that they would investigate him. However, it was not until some months after they began to suspend accounts that they abused the information of the users as part of the investigations after the Cambridge Analytica scandal , that De Ceukelaire noticed that NameTests solved the problem.
120 million users per month, almost three years exposing user data. They only solve the problem after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook paid $ 8,000 to De Ceukelaire as part of its rewards program, and they said they had cooperated with NameTests to solve the problem. However, NameTests has been operating since 2015 and in all that time he was potentially exposing user data , although the company denies that there is no evidence that it ever happened.
The constant pile of lies that Facebook has accustomed us to when it comes to what happens with our information in the social network, nobody can blame you if you do not believe them at all.
Despite all the criticism, and attempts by governments to make Mark Zuckberger accountable, Facebook still wants to convince us that their business is not our data with almost laughter arguments. Even with the GDPR at stake they are still manipulating users to share even more information , and they have hundreds of disturbing patents that basically serve to spy on every aspect of your life via mobile.
I first saw this nametest of thing last year and it went on driving folks crazy, which princess are you, who is your lover, which genius do you look like, I knew there's something fishy about it. Thanks for clearing my doubt.
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