facebook declare the data brokers have purchased an application which can identify social networking site user information from the developers. As a result, facebook application developer suspended for six months.
The announcement posted on the developer blog reveals some existing popular applications on facebook are transmitting the identity of users, one of which data on behalf of the user’s friends about 25 applications to advertising companies.
“We found a data broker who pay developers to ‘steal’ the identity of users,” he wrote in a blog facebook developers. “This is a violation of policy and this is very serious.”
After suspend the developers, facebook will be asking them to submit data that has been leaked to re-audited and requested a commitment that they will not repeat it.
Unfortunately, facebook does not identify who the data brokers that buy information from the application developer. However, the company led by Mark Zuckerberg had been agreed with Rapleaf, a data aggregation company based in San Francisco to erase all user data they get from facebook application developers.
[source twitteling]
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