People and businesses produce, as well as consume, the content on these sites. But these bots are feeding us artificially hyped content on the ‘trending’ and ‘popular near you’ sections of these sites. This Facebook app gave Kogan access not only to the data of Facebook users who used the app, but also of the people they were connected to. This led to the personal data of nearly 50 million Facebook users being accessible to Kogan. What they did was to ask Kogan and CA to delete all of the data they had acquired.

Source: Economic Times April 08, 2018 18:00 UTC