Facebook is planning to make users ' addresses and mobile phone numbers available for apps, people use on the Web site, even though it says it would require users to give explicit permission for it to happen.
The company reiterated its plan to move ahead with the opening of the users ' personal information, which was first revealed in a blog post on its developer blog in January — encoding entitled "Platform updates: New User-object fields, Edge contents.remove event and more" — but suspended three days later in anger Privacy reactions from advocates.
That included a letter from the US Congress representatives Edward Markey and Joe Barton, who objected to the idea. "Facebook needs to protect the personal information of users to Facebook is not the phone book", wrote Markey. "There is, therefore, I ask for answers to these questions to understand better the Facebooks practice relating to possible access to users ' personal information by third parties. This is sensitive data and must be protected. "
Despite criticism from privacy advocates and lawmakers in the United States when plans were announced, the company said in a letter to the House of representatives by Marne Levine, its vice President for global public policy, published Tuesday, that "we expect atNår function [to share your mailing and mobile data] is reactivated, Facebook again want to allow users to allow the program to obtain their contact information. "But the Facebook" currently assessing methods to further enhance user control in this area ".
The change will make the data available to app developers via a "permissions dialog box," when users enable a app on the social network Web site.
Write on MSNBC, Helen Popkin said about the latest plan to "Facebook pot slowly heating the water and we, my friends, is the frog. Since we noticed our peeling skin, is another any hunk of our private lives long away. "
She commented that the Facebook announcement, writeback, and Re-announcement fit a repeating pattern: "this is how Facebook rolls: removing a large part of your personal information, shouting ' Our bad! ' and scroll back when users and/or personal information advocates complain. Then wait a little, and do whatever it is Facebook planned to do anyway. How! Boiled frog. "
Facebook, in the meantime been experimenting with a new privacy policy, which would be more a guide to how personal information is used, rather than a lengthy legal document.
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