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Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.

  • Users’ contacts were accessed without their knowledge: James
  • Process asked users to give their personal email passwords
Facebook Executives Liable for Harmful Content Under U.K. Plans
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New York’s attorney general is opening an investigation into Facebook Inc.’s unauthorized collection of 1.5 million users’ email contacts without their permission.

The email harvest may have exposed hundreds of millions of people to targeted advertising by the embattled social-media company, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Thursday in a statement.