New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that a number of state agencies including the Department of State and Department of Financial Services will investigate Facebook health data acquisition practices exposed by The Wall Street Journal. According to the report, 11 of the most popular 70 applications from the Apple and Google app stores are sending sensitive personal information of tens of millions of users to Facebook, even when they weren’t logged in. This practice, which in some cases clearly violates Facebook’s own business terms, is an outrageous abuse of privacy.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/ny-governor-cuomo-calls-for-investigation-on-facebook-health-data-collection/