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Facebook Updates Privacy Policies

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Things are changing at Facebook amidst the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The company, first and foremost, plans to ban all companies using authorized profiles to mine data from unauthorized ones. The policy has been in place since 2014, but Zuckerberg admits it has not been monitored appropriately.

Mark Zuckerberg also plans to limit third-party access to user information. Most critically, third-party apps will no longer have permissions to see guest lists for events. These actions will hopefully work to decrease illegal data mining through the website and gain back user trust.