Facebook Starts Blocking Sensitive Medical Data Shared by Apps Over Privacy Concerns

Facebook has been accused of not policing its own rule of barring apps from sharing sensitive medical data of users. Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York financial services department on Thursday.

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