Facebook suspends another data-analytics firm

Social media giants, Facebook has suspended another data-analytics firm over possible policy violations.

Facebook said it has temporarily suspended the firm, Crimson Hexagon, while it looks into whether it violated data-sharing policies.

Facebook was responding to an inquiry from the Wall Street Journal, which reported that Crimson Hexagon had deals to analyze Facebook data for clients including several U.S. governmental agencies and a Russian organization with Kremlin ties.

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Facebook said that based on its investigation so far, Crimson Hexagon did not obtain any Facebook or Instagram information inappropriately. Facebook said the analytics company is cooperating with the probe.

“We don’t allow developers to build surveillance tools using information from Facebook or Instagram,” a company rep said in a statement. “We take these allegations seriously, and we have suspended these apps while we investigate.”

 

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