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New York requests documents from Facebook, apps on data sharing


New York requests documents from Facebook, apps on data sharing



A New York regulator is ramping up a promised investigation of how Facebook Inc. gathered sensitive personal information from popular smartphone applications after a report by The Wall Street Journal revealed that many such apps were sending the social-media giant data, including users’ body weight and menstrual cycles.

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