MPs release ‘secret’ Facebook e-mails
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Neil Hodge2018-12-10T13:00:00
The U.K.’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee has released 250 pages of e-mails that show Mark Zuckerberg and other senior executives at Facebook gave certain app developers special access to user data.
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