Facebook offers a new incentive to developers of applications for its network. May request the surfer who wants to download the access phone number and mailing address. Facebook has not informed the members of the network of this change, has published on the blog for developers. Published in the same code to be incorporated into the application to open a window where you ask permission.Facebook clear to developers that if they get the permission it will not access the same data of friends who had authorized the acquisition of their own. This development has not liked some experts. The security company Sophos, reporting on it, warns that this permission increases the risk of identity theft.
Most Facebook applications do not have strong systems of protection and are accessible with relative ease. Sophos recommends deleting the personal profile as the phone number and mailing address. Facebook has always had a permissive policy on access to data of its members who has been editing and annotating as growing criticism for it.
In fact, projects of new social networks open source and Diaspora are born because of concerns aroused in some quarters this permissiveness.
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