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Russian investor Yuri Milner was the chairman of Mail.Ru Group until he stepped down in 2012. Treasury Department published in January of Russian billionaires with ties to the Kremlin. Mail.Ru Group is controlled by USM Holdings, a company founded by Alisher Usmanov, who was included on a list the U.S. Facebook told CNN it had contacted Mail.Ru about the investigation, but didn't say when it first reached out. Mail.Ru told CNN that it had not been contacted by Facebook about its investigation into the misuse of user data. Related: Facebook investigating employee's links to Cambridge Analytica If we find misuse, we ban the developers.' We've found no indication of misuse with.

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, one of the top five largest internet companies in the world, has built apps for the Facebook platform and for other major platforms, including iOS and Android for years. In a written statement provided to CNN after his interview on Tuesday, Facebook VP Archibong said, 'Facebook is a global company with users all over the world so we work with developers globally to bring our services to people everywhere - as long as those developers adhere to our platform policies. The company declined to elaborate on its methods for determining how Mail.Ru may have used personal data, citing confidentiality between Facebook and developers.Īrchibong said that Facebook was devoting significant resources to investigating app developers, but he wouldn't say if Russian-built apps were being prioritized for investigation over others. Ime Archibong, Facebook's vice president of partnerships, told CNN on Tuesday that Facebook had not found any evidence that the Mail.Ru Group had misused Facebook user data, but acknowledged that the investigation is continuing and would not answer if Facebook even has the ability to determine how the Russian company used data derived from Facebook.įacebook would not say how much user data the Mail.Ru Group obtained or if any data was obtained about American citizens. The admission came in a list of written answers Facebook provided to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

In 2014 Facebook announced it was changing the policy, and would restrict developers' access to data on app users' friends by May 2015.īut two weeks ago, Facebook told Congress that it gave 61 companies, including Mail.Ru, an extension on access to the data beyond May 2015. Prior to 2015, in some cases, when Facebook users interacted with the apps built by third-party developers on Facebook, the developer not only received data about that user, but also about the users' friends - including name, gender, birthdate, location, photos, and what they 'liked' on Facebook. Related: Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal draws growing federal scrutiny

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