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April 10, 2018 10:34 pm GMT

Cambridge Analytica may have accessed some Facebook users messages

The app permissions that led to 87 million Facebook users' data being harvested and sold to Cambridge Analytica may have also allowed access to those users' inboxes, the company confirmed today. This wasn't achieved by any underhanded means, exactly, but people might not have realized that they were granting permission to read and record their private messages as well as more public data like location and interests.

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