Facebook will ban personality tests and other applications that may violate data

Faced with the vulnerability of user data collection by some platforms and companies, Facebook will no longer allow the use of "personality tests" and some other applications. this can compromise the social network.

This determination could be made after the big scandal of last year with filtering data from Cambridge Analytica, in which it was possible to access the personal data of more than 80 million usersbones by means of a disguised application.

Eddie O Neil, head of the platform, revealed in the developer blog that access to a number of APIs would be removed. from July of this year. Similarly, new platform strategies determine which applications, such as personality tests, may not be allowed.

"It is possible that applications with minimal utility providing predictions, badessments or similar results for the user, are not allowed in the platform, "he wrote.

For example, applications that provide (or intend to provide) user personality badessments, personal attributes, traits, behavioral tendencies or whose main function is to make predictionsWho is the user, may not be allowed.

The necessary change occurs 13 months after the finding that the application ThisIsMyDigitalLife as well as other applications disguised as a personality test, have been used by Cambridge Analytica steal data from millions of users and use them to influence the 2016 US presidential election.

Added to this adjustment, Facebook also revealed that previously approved user permissions, will expire if they have not been used within 90 days. Access to expired licenses will be revoked.

The company said that later it would be responsible for reviewing and verifying the applications in terms of permits, eliminate those who have not used. As for policy issues, Facebook is again committed to launching a major update in the coming months.

Legal Consequences for Cambridge Analytica

"I am deeply disappointed to share this news, the judge ruled against me, I'm really sorry to say it, but it seems that Cambridge Analytica was successful. Now they will be liquidated "says David Carroll, a researcher and teacher who sued the company.