Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data discussed for years

Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:17AM (#19679944)

To use most user-data-serving Facebook APIs, you need both authorization from the user whose data you’re reading and approval from Facebook itself for your app. Facebook has been accused of bad behavior when approving and denying apps, but they haven’t (as far has been reported) released any APIs to get user data without first asking the user.

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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by ForHackernews on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:45AM (#19681659)

This is true, but I doubt most users understood exactly what they handed over when they clicked "log in with Facebook".

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Re:Facebook documents show plans to sell access to user data... by alex_57_dieck on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:26AM (#19689150)

at least there's always a tldr (you know what exactly you are handing over in a few bullet points), especially when you think of all the contracts/fine prints/ToS you accept in life..

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