Facebook has decided to delay the possibility that application developers can ask the phone and mailing address of the user. The company has announced on the same blog where he published the above plan and justifies it because he wants to ensure data security and the concerns expressed by members of the network.Facebook offered a new incentive to developers of applications for its network. Could ask the surfer who wants to download the access phone number and mailing address. Facebook did not inform members of the network of this change, 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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