Facebook has temporarily shelved plans to share members’ home addresses and mobile numbers with app developers, following a strong backlash over privacy and safety concerns. The social networking giant had announced late last Friday that it would make this information accessible to developers through its User Graph object, subject to certain restrictions. However, warnings were raised that this could further endanger Facebook users. Facebook was apparently trying to make user data more portable to ease online shopping for users through the sharing of their data.
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Facebook Does About-Face Following Privacy Backlash
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 18, 2011 12:02 PMFacebook has temporarily shelved plans to share members’ home addresses and mobile numbers with app developers, following a strong backlash over privacy and safety concerns. The social networking giant had announced late last Friday that it would make this information accessible to developers through its User Graph object, subject to certain restrictions. However, warnings were raised that this could further endanger Facebook users. Facebook was apparently trying to make user data more portable to ease online shopping for users through the sharing of their data.