Facebook Developers Sold User IDs to Data Brokers

After the controversy over the safety of the user identity of Facebook, the social networking site, acknowledged on Friday that some of his company sells data brokers UID. "After considering the circumstances UID accidental transfers, we have several cases in which the data broker UID developers to have found" Facebook engineer, wrote Mike Spring blog. Private users can not be sold, with the spring. Facebook developers for six months suspended. To return to the Facebook developer community, "present their work methods to verify the data in the future, to confirm that they comply with our policies" which he writes.

Facebook has not disclosed the names of the developers involved, except to say they were "a dozen, mostly smaller" for developers who are not among the 10 applications page on the site. Facebook also agreed with the row of data that are the company Rapleaf all user ID and remove Facebook, and stop to perform an activity on the Facebook platform in the future. "Through these steps, we believe, take appropriate measures to ensure that people retain control over their information, while the developer the tools they need to create social experiences," writes the spring. Facebook UID header problem a few weeks, when the Wall Street Journal published an article that the applications for Facebook users, personal information with other advertising networks and Internet tracking company said shares published.

This apparently includes the 10 applications on Facebook, and Rapleaf. Facebook said late UID encrypted future. On Friday, Facebook, said the Data Protection Directive "confirm that the UID can not leave its application, or any other infrastructure, code and services to create and run the application" for Spring wrote. Services such as Akamai, Amazon Web Services, and other options allow analysis "provided these services are confidential, UID of its application." This week, Facebook will also start an anonymous manner to third parties, such as content partners, customers and other service providers to identify. The developers are required to the mechanism by January 1.