App Russian companies Mail.Ru have access to user data, Facebook after the social network shut down its platform for third-party developers in 2015. Told about this edition of CNN and Wired.
Not so long ago Facebook in its written testimony to the U.S. Congress admitted that the app Mail.Ru was integrated with social networking platform longer than the permitted period.
Mail.Ru became one of the favorites of the developers of applications that have received a temporary access platform Facebook after the formal closure in 2015. According to CNN and Wired, Mail.Ru there was an additional two weeks for access to user data, after the tightening of privacy policies in social networks. These data were used to promote games.
U.S. democratic Senator mark Warner called for an investigation due to the fact that the company is closely connected with the Kremlin and Putin. The representative of Facebook have already reported on initiated internal investigation in all such cases, not only in relation with Mail.Ru.
We will remind, in June, Facebook acknowledged the transfer of user data of at least sixty manufacturers of smartphones and other gadgets. In April, Facebook started to curtail such arrangements, after the scandal of massive data breaches, but many of them are still in operation