Facebook suspends the Crimson Hexagon analysis company | Trade | Technology and science | Social networks

A new punished. The data badysis company Crimson Hexagon was suspended by Facebook . This was announced by the social network this Friday. The company said it was measured by investigating how it collects and shares information from users of the social network.

Facebook reported that the punished company is participating in the investigation. And despite the measure, he still finds no evidence that the company has improperly obtained personal user data from over a billion social network conversations, forums, blogs, and reviews to which Crimson Hexagon access, according to

The "The Wall Street Journal", quoted by the Associated Press, said that among the clients of Crimson Hexagon, based in Boston, is a Russian non-profit organization near the Kremlin . [19659004] "We do not allow developers to build surveillance tools using information from Facebook or Instagram," said Ime Archibong, vice president of product partnerships. "We take these allegations very seriously and have suspended these requests while we investigate."

While Crimson Hexagon's chief technology officer, Chris Bingham, stated in a blog that Facebook "fully respects" the rules of social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, established to limit the way external companies use their data.

According to Bingham, only public information is collected, contrary to what Cambridga did Analytica who used private information. This is how its users, which include government customers, badyze the data to understand consumer trends and preferences on a large scale.

"Government entities that use the Crimson Hexagon platform do so for the same reasons as many others. of our non-governmental clients: a broad understanding of public perceptions, preferences, and feelings about issues that concern them, "he writes