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How legal battle with Pikini app threatens to strip bare Facebook secrets

The Pikini app for locating photos of users in swimsuits didn't last long because Facebook restricted developer access to friends' data

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Peter Blumberg and Robert Burnson | Bloomberg
An online ad for a Facebook app that debuted in 2014 showed a man in a bar pointing his phone at women to zap away their clothes, leaving them wearing only bikinis.

The Pikini app for locating photos of users in swimsuits didn’t last long because Facebook restricted developer access to friends’ data. But now a bitter legal dispute between the app maker and the social networking giant is threatening to strip bare Facebook’s often-criticized practices for sharing what users post on the network.
 
Sensitive internal Facebook records that were supposed to remain sealed in a California court case were leaked