{"id":21860,"date":"2010-10-18T22:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T20:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=21860"},"modified":"2010-10-18T22:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T20:36:30","slug":"le-applicazioni-farlocche-di-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2010\/10\/18\/le-applicazioni-farlocche-di-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Le applicazioni farlocche di Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via NJT<\/a><\/p>\n

Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information\u2014in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names\u2014to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found.<\/p>\n

The issue affects tens of millions of Facebook app users, including people who set their profiles to Facebook’s strictest privacy settings. The practice breaks Facebook’s rules, and renews questions about its ability to keep identifiable information about its users’ activities secure.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Facebook says it is taking steps to “dramatically limit” the exposure of users’ personal information, after a WSJ investigation showed that personal IDs were being transmitted to third parties via Facebook apps. But how hard is it to fix such a breach – and how concerned should users be about the sharing of these IDs? Julia Angwin joins Digits to discuss.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The problem has ties to the growing field of companies that build detailed databases on people in order to track them online\u2014a practice the Journal has been examining in its What They Know series. It’s unclear how long the breach was in place. On Sunday, a Facebook spokesman said it is taking steps to “dramatically limit” the exposure of users’ personal information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via NJT Many of the most popular applications, or “apps,” on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information\u2014in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names\u2014to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found. The issue affects tens of millions of … Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[129,274],"class_list":["post-21860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diritti","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21861,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21860\/revisions\/21861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}