Cuomo directs state probe into Facebook after data-sharing report

Published February 22, 2019 8:36pm ET



New York Andrew Cuomo on Friday ordered state officials to launch a probe into Facebook’s information-tracking practices.

The Democratic governor’s move follows a Wall Street Journal report showing that based on a series of tests conducted on mobile devices with the Facebook app downloaded, the social media giant instantaneously reads and records a wide range of information given to other apps on the same device.

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