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Yeat, especially considering that:

- This was part of an open API, you just needed to sign up for free. There is no data breach.

- EVERYONE was using it - this consisted mostly of games like Farmville. This is how they can show your friends progress and their profile pic.

- It was shut down more than a year ago.

Actually there is no newsworthy thing at Facebooks side at all, the new thing is that companies built games just to harvest this data and use it for something else.



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