I'm more of a season fb dev, since I only play with the API from time to time, yet I've managed to suffer with their docs every time I try to do something. Rec

I'm more of a season fb dev, since I only play with the API from time to time, yet I've managed to suffer with their docs every time I try to do something. Recently I've found another problem - public user data being visible to users, such as birthday, hometown and current location is not available through te Graph API as well as REST old one. Of course they're documented as available http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user and accessible by visitors, but not by API. I've found this case in lots of posts on the forums and bugtrack, f.ex. http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8376 http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=8376 marks this bug as fixed, yet there's a new one http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12090 http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=12090 with the same case. While I need it mostly for side projects, I pity the ones whose FB app is core for their business, f.ex. this comment: Do we have a fix for this solution? In spite of so many people facing the problem why is this issue not addressed till now? Can someone answer these questions? Our application is totally based on the way Facebook gives the location info and most of the time we get the location info as NULL.