Monday, January 17, 2011

Facebook: Now sharing your home address with developers...

Do you publish your home address online? In managing our online lives, many of us quite advisedly draw the line the line at our home address. But if you've ever spent an hour polishing your Facebook profile and compulsively filled every box – you might remember putting your home address.

That's useful for friends that want to post you a birthday present perhaps, but Facebook has caused no small amount of concern by quietly opening this data field to developers. A post on Saturday by Jeff Bowen in Facebook's developer support team explained that users' addresses and mobile phone numbers are being made available on the development platform through a number of APIs. More...

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