So, because the policy could expose both your and your friends' data, app access to Gmail could create a security risk similar to the mechanism that allowed for Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal.

As part of this process we will also tell people if their information may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica ... social media companies, mobile apps and startups for ...

After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal broke in 2018 ... allows users to experience Facebook (and potentially our other apps) without ads. Goal: Provide an advertising ‘opt out’ and ...

Back in 2014, not long after Kogan obtained the data he would later pass on to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook made changes to limit the amount of data apps were able to access and added a requirement ...

We don't know exactly which information Cambridge Analytica obtained from as many as 50 million Facebook users. But Facebook's old API, the software tool that gives third party apps access to ...

Emails show Eric Schmidt's daughter, Sophie Schmidt, suggested that Cambridge Analytica's parent company ... the work of the cambridge prof as a mobile app that connects to facebook?" ...