> Second, we will restrict developers' data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse. For example, we will remove developers' access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months.
Won't this behavior break a ton of apps?
Would they really be moving fast and breaking things if it didn't?
The problem was data that was secretly kept, right? How would removing access change anything? Or am I misunderstanding what happened?
> we immediately banned Kogan's app from our platform.
So my guess is the app still existed, and could probably keep querying data to keep user profiles updated. What you like, do, who you interact with; it all changes with time, so the data's value is slowly lost as it diverges from reality.
Moreover, there might be apps I gave access to back in the day when I didn't know better that could potentially still access my information. Even if the actors aren't malicious now, this could probably to prevent Chrome-extension like situations. Apparently legit extensions have been bought in the past by malicious actors with the purpose of exploiting their broad install-base and permissions [1]. I could see something similar happening with Facebook apps.
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/malwa...