Facebook says it mistakenly let 5,000 developers gather information from people’s profiles after a time limit on their rights had expired.
Apps on Facebook are supposed to be prevented from accessing people’s personal data if the app has not been used for 90 days.
But Facebook said that lock-out had not always worked due to a flaw in how it recorded inactivity.
“We fixed the issue the day after we found it ... Read even more
