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Why is it even possible for an app to request your Facebook messages though?
by monochromatic 9y ago
Why is it even possible for an app to request your Facebook messages though?
- CGamesPlay 9y agoYou used to be able to build an alternative client using Facebook's published API.
- joe5150 9y agoI didn't think it was. The API docs have always said that the thread endpoint is only available to the developers of the app making the request. It's possible to get the contents of the inbox though. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.12/thread https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2....
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoI could imagine interesting apps designed to riff on your launguage patterns
- paxys 9y agoThere are a lot of valid uses. Why would it be better for your data to be locked up and unexportable?
- JetSpiegel 9y agoFalse equivalence. Exportable doesn't mean acessible to the world.
- gtremper 9y agoBut someone could pay you for your exported Facebook data (which can include data from friends such as your message history, etc). From my understanding, this is essentially what CA did. CA just obfuscated they were doing this by using the Facebook developer program to automate this process and Mechanical Turk to pay users to give them their data. I agree the Facebook developer program made it really easy to phish for this data.
- dsacco 9y agoThe commenter didn’t make that “false equivalence.” Their point is that there are valid reasons a user might want to allow an application to access their messages. For example, reddit’s API allows applications to access messages, which is useful for third party clients.
- downandout 9y agoIt isn't...today. Remember, this app was deployed many years ago, prior to the 2014 API neutering.
- aianus 9y agoI trained my predictive keyboard on Android on my Facebook messages and emails.