After Cambridge Analytica, Facebook suspends 400 apps over data concerns

Facebook is ramping up privacy standards, especially with regard to developer relationships, after Cambridge Analytica obtained information on as many as 85 million Facebook users

Facebook Inc. said it has investigated thousands of apps and suspended 400 of them since a developer data leak scandal broke in March.

That’s about double the number the company earlier said it had pulled. Facebook made the moves “due to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been used — which we are now investigating in much greater depth,” the company said in a blog post-Wednesday.

One such investigation, into an app called myPersonality, resulted in a full ban because the app didn’t cooperate with an