(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Even those who have set their profiles to Facebook’s strictest privacy setting are included in the tens of millions of Facebook app users being identified. The new finding by the Wall Street Journal renewed questions about Facebook’s ability to keep identifiable information about its users secure.
Information is being transmitted through a “Facebook ID” number shared by a user’s Internet browser or by an application. This individual Facebook ID number is assigned to every Facebook account, and anyone can use an ID number to look up a person’s name using the standard Web browser. Some of the most popular app’s, which include Farmville, Zynga, Texas HoldEm Poker and many more, are not created by Facebook but by independent software developers which have been removed from Facebook after the finding.
The new conflicting privacy issues challenge Facebook which has recently been criticized for modifying its privacy rules to expose more user information. Facebook was found purposely transmitting the ID numbers to advertising companies, but the site suspended that practice after much criticism.
Currently, Facebook has removed many of their top apps in response to these new privacy issue findings, and are working with their app software developers on correcting the problem.
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