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Meta consultant hit with New Mexico subpoena in state's app data-sharing probe

By Mike Swift ( June 21, 2024, 22:24 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms started to phase out its liberal data-sharing policy for apps on its platform a decade ago, yet the practice of allowing app developers to access not just the personal data of Facebook users who downloaded their app, but also the data of their Facebook friends, continues to cause regulatory problems for the social media giant. New Mexico's attorney general has hit Meta with an investigative subpoena demanding details of an App Developer Investigation that Mark Zuckerberg commissioned during the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal in 2018. Meta Platforms’ app data-sharing policy that led to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal continues to be a regulatory headache — a legal zombie that won’t stay buried — a decade after that policy ended and more than a year after a record $725 million federal court settlement....

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