US senators Mark Warner and Marco Rubio believe that developers with access to the Facebook API (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) can use valuable user data for spying, reports Reuters.
The senators wrote a letter to the founder of Meta (recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) Mark Zuckerberg with an understanding to explain whether this is true or not.
It follows from this document that Facebook (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) has been aware, on the occasion of the event, since September 2018, that hundreds of thousands of societies in countries characterized as “high-risk”, including the People’s Republic of China, are required access to a large amount of confidential data.
Speaks in a letter to Mark Zuckerberg
The documents the senators are talking about were released during the Cambridge Analytica trial.
Thanks to this, it became known that the Facebook API (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist and prohibited in the Russian Federation) was used by 90 thousand people from China, 42 people from Russia and several thousand people from Iran and North Korea. They demanded access to users’ personal data, including photos.
The senators believe that the secret services could use the information for counterintelligence. [Reuters]
Source: Iphones RU
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