The New York State attorney general has opened an investigation into Facebook's unauthorized collection of 1.5 million users' email contacts
New York The New York State attorney general has opened an investigation into Facebook's unauthorized collection of 1.5 million users' email contacts.
Last week, Facebook acknowledged that it collected up to 1.5 million users' email contacts without their consent. The company said that email contact lists had been"unintentionally" uploaded to Facebook following a design change in 2016, and that it was now in the process of deleting them. The practice was first reported on by Business Insider.
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