Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages

Facebook has said that political data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested the public profile data of up to 87 million of its users, including their political beliefs, interests and friends’ information.

Now the social network has revealed that the extent of the harvesting went even further — it included people’s private messages, too.

Source: Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages – The New York Times