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HasOffers acknowledges privacy violation with Facebook user data

Posted on September 14, 2013 by pogowasright.org

Dean Takahashi reports:

Peter Hamilton, the chief executive of MobileAppTracking and HasOffers (which offers tools that enables companies track the performance of their online ads), said in an e-mail to clients Friday that “it recently has come to our attention that our MobileAppTracking platform was in violation of Facebook’s policies. Specifically, our MobileAppTracking platform inappropriately allowed advertisers to obtain device-level attribution and performance data. This was a mistake on our part.”

Read more at VentureBeat.

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