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Title: Facebook Apps Share Confidential User Information
Post by: HCK on October 18, 2010, 03:00:21 pm
Facebook Apps Share Confidential User Information
      


A Wall Street Journal article published today has some pretty serious news for Facebook users: Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies… Wall [...]
      

http://blog.intego.com/2010/10/18/facebook-apps-share-confidential-user-information/