Facebook has disabled the API that share users ' mobile phone and address details with developers in response to a wave of what it calls "feedback", and what I would call a legitimate concern.
A carefully worded statement on the Facebook Developer Blog listed the potential benefits of using this data in the apps-speeding up the payment process on a shopping website, for example, or to permit the Groupon property-type concerns should be sent directly to your phone. And the post says, users must give permission to each app that may be using these data, it does not share the friends details and there is a program dashboard, where each user can control how their information is used.
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Despite these precautions and benefits ... Facebook admits now, "that we could make people more clearly when they grant access to this data".
"We are making changes to ensure that you only share this information when you intend to do it," said Douglas Purdy in official record. "We must work in order to launch these updates as soon as possible and want to temporarily disable this feature until these changes are ready. We look forward to thawing this improved feature in the next few weeks. "
Facebook's ' seek forgiveness not permission ' strategy is a high risk, but ultimately successful. On the one hand, it means a steady stream of what could be perceived as ' controversy ', as some of the more privacy-related features are rolled out, responded, and rolled out again in some modified form.
But it is the nature of iterating in an innovative company. The strategy also means that the number of problematic launches in relation to the total number of functions that can be rolled out, is very small.
Facebooks incredibly rapid development and growth have a lot to do with this process, and these kind of ' adjustments ' are a sign of a company that constantly pushes his own business forward. Tensions arise where activities overlap with our sense of public and private-an area where Facebook is on the line front redefine what personal information does for us.
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