Just how bad is Facebook app Privacy Problem

`Facebook ID` assigned to each user on the place since the user ID, Facebook is the world portion of any Facebook, anyone can use the ID come to reckon up the person`s name, using the web browser standard, even if this individual has put all the information Facebook him or her to be private. other users, id Facebook disclose information they have set to deal with the `everyone,` including age, residence, occupation, and pictures.

"The applications were reviewed by the cartridge to send Facebook ID numbers for at least 25 companies, advertising and data, and many of them to build profiles of Net users by tracking their activities online."

Facebook and the Rampart Street Journal on 10 most popular applications among those transmitting user IDs to international companies. The story also highlights the chronic problem of "implementation gap" - in presence of users who do not use applications are yet in peril of having their personal information shared with third parties if they are still Facebook "friends" with people who do.

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Certainly, the results are not Wall Street Journal to be taken seriously. While Facebook and many applications on demand collection of data error is unknown, said a spokesman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation points, whether Wall Street Journal can be ground on this information, why Facebook did not know about it?

However, while sharing the data the user is a gross violation of the privacy rules of Facebook, it`s barely Y2K social networks. Or, consider the craze that surrounded that event is, it probably is. Experts assert that the mutual information - so that users of Facebook Application World Health Organization (thought) they give to profiles completely shut down, is more of a disadvantage of online biography of a malicious plot.

In the word of Twitter on Sunday night, breaking a writer and journalism professor Jeff Jarvis and Blodget business from the interior and Henry down the sides of many of this issue. Jarvis claimed that the final man in the Rampart Street Journal series on privacy on the Net is a media owned by Rupert Murdoch, in the "war against the Internet."

He pointed out that Blodget at the very least, Wall Street Journal revealed a direct infringement of the rules of diligence for Facebook, which, added: "Most people admittedly could not care less about."

"Until you learn Jeff Jarvis uses Facebook," stated Jarvis. "Reveal the blank pages I use the phone, so?"

In fact, long before Facebook, and the line currently involved freely any data that is collected through store loyalty cards, catalogs, etc..

Any "job as usual" argument does not rinse with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "If major companies breach of concealment is to mould as usual, and there is a dangerous problem," said Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at privacy advocacy organization over the Net in a phone interview. Report reveals the Rampart Street Journal "terrible invasion of the privacy of Facebook," he said. Applications violate the rules of Facebook and "Facebook has no way to police them, or choose not is, ultimately, it is the responsibility Facebook. Let the multitude to the site, it is their duty to protect the secrecy of the user."

This is not the foremost problem Narrated by Facebook privacy Wall Street Journal. In May, the Rampart Street Journal reported that many of the social networks, including Facebook, send personally identifiable information to advertisers without the consent of the user. This was followed by a lawsuit.

Even if you do take to play Farmville never, or other Facebook applications, may`ve been the communion of personal information through those applications anyway. Wall Street Journal found that three of the Top 10 applications, including in Farmville.

"What is most disturbing is that these advertisers to cover your behavior," said Bankston. "Apps advertising companies to track users and produce a very sensible of your interests, with all the assurances continuing protected your real identity. Deliver the user`s identity Facebook applications, enabling advertisers to tie your real key and identity, so this behaviour and companies have detailed advertising information about you, and now they get to put a literal name for these records. "

For its part, Facebook seems to be taking this effect more severely than the loser of seclusion in the past. "This is the dispute more complex technical problem, we dealt with similar success in last spring on Facebook.com, but that we are attached to addressing," said a spokesman for Facebook Wall Street Journal.

Find many smaller applications closed for Foreign Affairs of sharing user information continuously over the weekend after speaking to the Rampart Street Journal, Facebook, though none in particular from the top money maker Zynga, which makes Farmville, Texas Hold`em, and FrontierVille.