Popular Facebook applications, including Texas Hold'em Farmville, convey unique identification numbers of users and advertising companies
Another problem in information security of users has been on Facebook. Investigation of the Wall Street Journal reveals that dozens of popular applications, passing the unique ID number of Facebook users and advertising research companies stockpile information about people. Delivery of information unrelated to user's privacy settings, and it occurs even with Facebook users have strict privacy settings. And yes, Farmville is one of the applications who shared information, together with Texas Hold'em poker and Frontierville - other popular games Zynga company.This after the boat turned out to Facebook all Lolapps company's games, she used this way, contradictory policies Facebook. Lolapps company operates among others the Gift Creator application, has 3.5 million users, Quiz Creator application, has 1.4 million users.Every Facebook user has a unique identification number, and by this number, anyone can access the user's public profile. Even if his privacy settings most rigorous, such a search produce at least the user registered his name up (in many cases, the person's real name). In cases where privacy settings are not rigid, it will be possible to discover any other items not blocked, such as age, place of residence and professional.Facebook admit gap, saying that "ID can be shared inadvertently by the user's browser or application." In addition, given Wall Street Journal that Facebook will display a new technology that will block the loophole.The most widespread use newspaper found the gap is by RapLeaf company, collect information about users, leaving a cookie file (ID) on their computers and then sells its database - which includes all the information gathered, which could include personal information and habits network - publishing companies . Then, when you surf to a site that has customer RapLeaf advertisements, advertisement display apparatus "recognize" you through the file left on the computer and displays advertisements that are tailored more to the profile you have company.In RapLeaf stress that they do not collect names, but the investigation of The Journal argued that the Facebook ID numbers (through which you can easily discover the name. At least that with which the person registered social network) Yes, those are dozens of publishing sites.
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