Hardly your grandmother’s Facebook New User Object fields
Yesterday, something I said on Twitter seems to have resonated. “It takes a court order to get your personal data from Twitter, but just anyone can get it from Facebook.”
Facebook has updated its platform “making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object” to application developers. Although I don’t make Facebook applications or understand why people use Facebook — I don’t — I know this is a big deal.
While on one hand, Facebook admits that, for example, my teenage nieces’ address and mobile numbers are “sensitive information”, what they themselves refer to as a “standard permissions dialog” hardly makes that clear.
Written by Andy Clarke
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