Facebook rewords policy to expressly forbid harnessing data for surveillance

Facebook has closed a legal loophole in its terms and conditions of use which allowed developers to harness its data for surveillance, changing its language  to more clearly outlaw such practices.
Tightened wording expressly prohibits developers from using ‘data obtained from us to provide tools that are used for surveillance’, making such activity explicit for the first time.
The changes, which will affect Instagram users as well, have been prompted by a number of recent incide