FB to gve access to users data

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook. About Facebook is a great service.

I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60. However, Facebook hasn't always managed its users' data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user's personal information to just their friends and their "network" (college or school). Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user's personal information have become more and more permissive. This blog post by Kurt Opsahl at the the EFF gives a brief timeline of Facebook's Terms of Service changes through April of 2010. Let me be clear about something: I like Facebook. Data The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data.

I welcome data corrections, so please leave a comment below if you have better numbers to share. Facebook ouvre son système de notifications aux développeurs tiers. Perpétuellement, la plateforme Facebook évolue.

Elle proposera bientôt aux développeurs d’applications tierces la possibilité de communiquer directement avec ses membres en envoyant des notifications directement à leurs profils. A l’instar du système établi sur le réseau social pour signaler les nouveaux éléments déposés sur une timeline (contributions, commentaires…) le réseau social élabore une interface de programmation logicielle (API) spéciale pour exploiter les notifications.

Elle est disponible actuellement en version bêta. Most Facebook Apps Can Post Behind Your Back [EXCLUSIVE] How many apps have you installed on Facebook?

More importantly, how many of them could post something in your name right now, without your knowledge? Chances are, it's more than half of them. Privacy protection company Secure.me analyzed some 500,000 Facebook apps, and shared the results exclusively with Mashable. The biggest takeaways: 63% of those apps ask for the ability to post on your behalf — and 69% of them want your email address. ”It has become second nature to connect various apps like Instagram, SocialCam, AngryBirds, CityVille, and Spotify to your Facebook ID," says Secure.me founder Christian Sigl. "It doesn’t matter what your privacy settings are, the apps still get this information.” What the app makers could do with that information beggars belief. SEE ALSO: This App Knows More About Your Facebook Account Than You Do The permission puts your friends at risk, too.

Of course, few of us are concerned about the big name apps — the Instagrams, the Spotifys. Browser plug-in and website warn about data harvesting by Facebook apps.

FB Apps data harvesting

Facebook given one week to stop breaching privacy laws. A German consumers group has cried foul over Facebook App Center's alleged trampling on privacy laws.

Facebook may be facing legal action if it doesn't comply by Tuesday 4 September, according to news reports. Privacy laws are tighter in the EU, and Germans like to employ them. Just two weeks ago, German data protection officials reopened an investigation into Facebook’s facial recognition technology, on the grounds that the social network was illegally compiling a massive database of members’ photos without consent. (While you can't stop people from posting pictures of you on Facebook, there is a way to at least stop Facebook from suggesting your name when your friends upload photos.) App Center, rolled out in the spring, is Facebook's answer to Apple's App Store. Facebook is hoping the App Center will keep mobile users on the site long enough for it to squeeze some ad revenue out of them.

He outlined three design quirks specific to App Center: #1: The Single Button Trick. Facebook va donner accès à des données personnelles aux publicitaires. Facebook vient de confirmer à Presse-citron que des annonceurs agréés pourront avoir accès à de nouvelles fonctionnalités orientées ciblage dès la semaine prochaine.

Contrairement à ce qui a été publié ce matin dans nos colonnes, en aucun cas Facebook ne donnera accès à sa base de données à des tiers, dixit Facebook France. Facebook offers developers better access to data. Wolfram Alpha's Facebook Report Analyzes Every Dark Corner of Your Facebook Activity. Facebook Will Use Customer Email, Phone to Target Advertising - Peter Kafka - Media. Twitter is not the only social network tweaking its ad targeting program.

Facebook says it will start letting marketers find prospects on the social network by using personal information like phone numbers and email addresses. The catch: In order for a company to track a Facebook user using any of that data, the Facebook user has to have already given the company that data on their own. Or to put it another way: Facebook is letting marketers hunt down existing customers on the site.

InsideFacebook first reported the development this morning, and Facebook now says it will be rolling out the targeting option widely next week. It will give advertisers the ability to use phone numbers, email addresses and the “UID” code that Facebook users generate when they install apps on the network. The idea is that advertisers hand over that data to Facebook, which will match with the user data it already has.