err0r Posted November 1, 2010 Report Share Posted November 1, 2010 Facebook has announced that it found some application developers have sold data on Facebook users to a data broker, prompting a six-month suspension for several companies. Facebook did not name any of the companies involved, but said the suspensions will affect less than a dozen, mostly small developers. "While we determined that no private user data was sold and confirmed that transfer of these UIDs did not give access to any private data, this violation of our policy is something we take seriously," the company wrote in a blog post. "As such, we are taking action against these developers by instituting a 6-month full moratorium on their access to Facebook communication channels, and we will require these developers to submit their data practices to an audit in the future to confirm that they are in compliance with our policies." Facebook has also reached an agreement with Rapleaf, a data broker named in initial reports about the user ID privacy breach. The company has agreed to delete all Facebook user IDs in its possession, and will no longer conduct any activity on the Facebook Platform. Facebook added that next week it will release a new mechanism that developers must use to share anonymous profile identifiers, instead of the user ID. Additionally, ad networks must delete any previous Facebook user IDs as a precondition for being allowed to continue to serve ads on the site. Source: Mark Heffinger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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