Does Facebook Will Have to Face a New Privacy Scandal ?
According to a article on cnet.com on last Saturday, a new study suggests there may be a big problem with the applications made by individual developers - a policy authorized by Facebook since May 2007.
Indeed, it seems that many of those applications are given access to far more personal data than they need to in order to run, including data on users who never even signed up for the application. Indeed, when accepting a new application, the user also agree to allow the developer to see private data on all of your friends too.
Chris Soghoian write:
“Not only does Facebook enable this, but it does little to warn users that it is even happening, and of the risk that a rogue application developer can pose.”
The privacy problems for the user are explained in the following article.
This article also shows how researchers form the University of Virginia have blast Facebook.
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