The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that top apps used on Facebook Inc.'s social networking site have been giving out identifying information on users and sometimes their friends. Many users play games on facebook such as Farmville, Texas Hold'em Poker and Frontierville were a few of the prime offenders.Identifications are being transmitted by the apps to advertisers and Internet tracking companies. These companies can then look up a person's name, even if they have set their privacy safeguards to their account to keep the information private. If the Facebook account hasn't been set up that way it could also be sharing other data including age, residence, occupation and photos.
I will now delete any "game" I do not use on Facebook as well as double check my settings. I hope you all do the same. Soon enough there won't be "privacy."
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http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2010/10/18/report-facebook-app-ids-invade-privacy.html
Facebook privacy issues keep getting bigger and bigger! I heard that if you don't change a setting on your account advertisers can use your photos etc for their ads. That is creepy I always make sure my privacy settings are up to date!
I heard about this on Good Morning America today. When I checked it out, a Social Media Expert, atleast that's what he labeled himself, said companies wouldn't know how to access the hacked information. I actually disagree, but that's irrelevant. Point is: Facebook needs to get it together because they are quickly losing trust from its users. Facebook needs to re-group and re-think, fast.
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