Facebook has so far suspended 200 apps with large data usage

Facebook is busy mitigating the impact of the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. Several executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself, have reiterated that apps that steal data will be removed from the system. A month after Zuckerberg was grilled in front of the US Congress, Facebook has shared an update on its audit process.

Ime Archibong, the company’s vice president of product partnerships , said that Facebook has so far banned approximately 200 apps (permanently banned) that were found to be conducting suspicious activities related to the misuse of data belonging to the majority of users. announced that it had been discontinued . He also pointed out that teams of internal and external auditors have been deployed to investigate all apps with large numbers of users, similar to Alexander Kogan’s “This Is Your Digital Life.” .

Mr. Archibong assured that the investigation process is in full swing and informed that the investigation is divided into (apparent) two stages. He said that in the first stage, Facebook will identify all suspicious apps. Then, in the second phase, Facebook conducts a comprehensive interrogation to understand what kind of data and how much data app owners have access to . To take it a step further, the company also plans to conduct ” on-site inspections .”

The executive announced that Facebook is investing significant time and effort into the audit process, but did not specify a timeline for the activity. Eliminating all apps would be a difficult task and ” will take time,” he said.

But given Facebook’s track record with promises, it’s hard to trust the company completely. The same goes for audits. Although the company’s management has repeatedly promised to make user privacy its top priority, it was recently revealed that Facebook was cleared in an audit of its privacy policies by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Despite concrete evidence that Cambridge Analytica is misusing users’ data, PwC has come clean on social media networks, calling into question PwC’s integrity on privacy issues. Let me do it.