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> - How on earth does Facebook justify giving direct API access to information that users have, in every setting possible, marked as private? The user logs int
by methodover 8y ago
> - How on earth does Facebook justify giving direct API access to information that users have, in every setting possible, marked as private?
The user logs into Facebook on the device. This log-in action the part of the user is effectively permission to share data with the device.
> - How on earth does Facebook justify offering deep API access on users who have literally disabled API access to their data?
When the user logs into Facebook on the device, they are giving permission for their data to be transferred via an API to that device.
I do not understand your outrage.
- criley2 8y ago>The user logs into Facebook on the device. This log-in action the part of the user is effectively permission to share data with the device. As well as the data of 10,000 to 100,000 connected users as both friends and friends of friends have data pulled without any checks by the third party. "When the user logs into Facebook on the device, they are giving permission for their data to be transferred via an API to that device." When the user selects to have their data limited to friends only, and not friends of friends, then additionally disables API access to their data explicitly, no, they are not "giving permission for their data to be transferred via API". They are quite explicitly doing the opposite. My outrage, stated multiple times and oddly invisible to the users here, is that my user/password doesn't authorize the third party to access 10,000 to 100,000 other users private data, and those users personal settings should override any third party data hose utility.