Facebook employees had access to private passwords for hundreds of millions of people

Some of the companys old policies allowed outside developers to collect Facebook user data, often without the users understanding what was happening and in the case of Cambridge Analytica, that data was also sold outside of Facebook to a political data firm.

Now Facebook is under investigation from multiple government agencies, including the FTC, and could face a considerable fine for its role in the Cambridge Analytica issue. It seems likely this password situation will provide regulators with yet another arrow theyll use to try and regulate the companys data and privacy practices.

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