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Facebook applications send sensitive information
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Many Facebook apps sending personal information of the user and his friends to advertisers and businesses. According to a survey of U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
Applications on Facebook are using a so-called identification number for each user, so information about that person and connected friends can easily be collected. This is actually meant to data for other users to visualize, but many companies are here for commercial purposes so it will steal.
The investigation revealed that the ten most popular applications on Facebook (including Farmville) send all this sensitive information. Even people who have manually activated the highest security setting information would still be forwarded. According to The Wall Street Journal, this is therefore to millions of users.
New techniques
Facebook late in response to the investigation know that the identification in any case like this should be used. The networking site announces that there is therefore currently working on new techniques to the problem of the world’s problems. In addition, immediate action will be taken to the dissemination of private data reduction.