Facebook published on the 27th of June an article about “Building Trust and Protecting User Privacy” because “Privacy is at the core of Facebook”.
Because ” Facebook work to help clarify standards and maintain user trust” in applications available on Facebook, they recently suspended “Top Friends“, an application used by millions of users, one of the […]
According to the SANS newsBites from this 3rd of June:
“The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) has filed a complaint alleging that the social networking site Facebook violated numerous aspects of the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The complaint alleges that Facebook failed to let users know how their […]
Facebook as decided to suspend applications like Google’s Friends Connect and MySpace’s Data Availability “to access to Facebook user information until it comes into compliance” announced Charlie Cheever on this 15 of May.
Charlie also added:
“We think MySpace’s Data Availability, Google Friend Connect, and Facebook Connect can be part of a great movement in the industry […]
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 […]
