Facebook is scanning private messages its users are sending to each other over Facebook Messenger, the company admitted in response to a Bloomberg story. Separately, the company also announced updates to its privacy policies with simpler explanations on the types of data it gathers.

Questions about the company’s monitoring of Messenger messages had arisen after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had told Vox in a recent interview that the company had done so in Myanmar, shutting down conversations that were meant to incite violence.

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