Sentences with phrase «developer access to data»

In the most significant step, Facebook will remove developer access to your data if you haven't used it in three months.

The most important change is that Facebook will soon remove developer access to your data if you haven't used an app in three months.

That includes cutting off developer access to data for users who have not used their apps in three months and limiting the amount of data shared with apps when users sign in to only names, profile photos, and email addresses.

Secondly, developer access to data will be restricted beyond the changes that were made four years ago.

The most important change is that Facebook will now remove developer access to your data if you haven't used an app in three months.

He said the social network planned to conduct an investigation of thousands of apps that have used Facebook's platform, restrict developer access to data, and give members a tool that lets them to disable access to their Facebook data more easily.

«I think that that control is something that's important — and I think should apply to every service,» he continued, making a not - so - subtle plea for no other platforms to be able to leak data like Facebook's platform historically has (and thus to close any competitive loopholes that might open up as a result of Facebook tightening the screw on developer access to data now in the face of a major scandal).

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Business owners also can restrict developers from gaining access to certain data sets.

For Facebook users who haven't used an app in three months or more, Zuckerberg says the app developers will no longer have access to their data.

The issue at play is Facebook's original application programming interface, or API, which allows third - party developers to use Facebook's platform and access some user data as long as those users give permission.

Albright pointed to research from the Belgian university KU Leuven explaining what data was included in those extended profile properties — that is, exactly which data developers could access from your Facebook friends once you gave the app permission.

Aiming to placate concerned users and, more directly, potential regulators, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would be limiting developer access to user data.

Backblaze has always prided itself on providing possibly the world's least - expensive service for backing up data — $ 50 a year for unlimited storage — but its new product, called B2, targets data that developers and companies still want to access.

In 2013, a third - party app developer named Aleksandr Kogan had access to 50 million Facebook users» data for academic research, and without permission, he distributed it to a consulting firm with ties to the Trump Administration, Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook subsequently limited developer access to user data in 2014, turning off the Friends data API that Cambridge Analytica now infamously used to gather its data.

Although Zuckerberg talked a lot about protecting user information, he did not mention why Facebook overlooked the potential problems inherent in giving developers such broad access to user data in the first place.

On Wednesday, after admitting that its system could have allowed «malicious actors» to gather data on most of its 2 billion users, Facebook opted to immediately remove access to several sets of data previously accessible to developers via Instagram and Facebook's APIs.

Friend was reportedly central to the development of Apple's healthcare frameworks, HealthKit, ResearchKit, and CareKit — frameworks designed to help researchers, developers, and users access and record health data.

Zuckerberg also announced the social media giant would no longer allow app developers to access its users» data after three months of inactivity and it would reduce the amount of information people are required to hand over to third parties.

Examples of APIs include Google Maps API (allows developers to embed Google maps on web pages), Twitter APIs (Twitter has two APIs — REST, which allows developers to access core Twitter data, and Search, which allows developers to interact with Twitter Search and trends data), and Amazon Product Advertising API (allows developers to access Amazon's product database and advertise Amazon products on a website).

As for Cambridge Analytica, only now is Facebook launching an investigation into apps created at a time when the company was promising «easy access» for app developers, including Aleksandr Kogan, whose This Is Your Digital Life quiz app created the data set that was then sold to Cambridge Analytica.

Second, we will restrict developers» data access even further to prevent other kinds of abuse.

Facebook's policies previously allowed developers to siphon off app users» Facebook friends data — though Facebook tightened up these permissions in 2014 — «to dramatically reduce data access», as founder Mark Zuckerberg has now claimed — though evidently not dramatically enough for Mozilla.

It will also further restrict developers» access to data and create a new, more visible tool for people to see which apps are accessing their data and how.

We'll require developers to not only get approval but also sign a contract in order to ask anyone for access to their posts or other private data.

For example, we will remove developers» access to your data if you haven't used their app in 3 months.

Rather than taking it on trust that developers given access to masses of user data will do the right thing.

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized on Wednesday for mistakes his company made in how it handled data belonging to 50 million of its users and promised tougher steps to restrict developers» access to such information.

Facebook will also require developers to not only get approval but also «sign a contract in order to ask anyone for access to their posts or other private data», he says.

And after a data protection audit and re-audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, in 2011 and 2012, the regulator recommended it shutter developers» access to friend networks — which Facebook finally did (for both old and new apps) as of mid 2data protection audit and re-audit by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, in 2011 and 2012, the regulator recommended it shutter developers» access to friend networks — which Facebook finally did (for both old and new apps) as of mid 2Data Protection Commissioner, in 2011 and 2012, the regulator recommended it shutter developers» access to friend networks — which Facebook finally did (for both old and new apps) as of mid 2015.

The privacy watchdog also recommends Facebook tightens app permissions on its platform, including to close down developers» access to friends data

Since the data misuse scandal blew up last month, Facebook has said it is conducting a full audit of any apps which had access to «a large amount» of information before it changed app permissions on its platform in mid 2015 to prevent developers from being able to suck out data on Facebook users» friends.

As we understand it now, the data mining and analytics company, based out of London, gained access to data on as many as 50 million Facebook profiles thanks to generous data - sharing policies Facebook app developers enjoyed back in 2014.

In 2016, the ACLU in California also discovered through a public records investigation that social media surveillance companies like Geofeedia were improperly exploiting Facebook developer data access to monitor Black Lives Matter and other activists.

Developers can no longer access the data about a user's friends unless the friends also subscribe to that developer's services.

In 2014, Facebook changed the rules that would prevent developers form accessing data the way Kogan did, and now Zuckerberg said the company will be approaching developers from before that time to snuff out any other data leaks.

Facebook has also been reviewing its internal policies and promised to audit any other third party developers who may have had similar access to data.

The CEO vowed to police the platform more vigorously, and audit any developer that may have gotten access to user data.

Specifically he said the company will restrict the data that third - party developers can access to names, profile photos and email addresses, and will require developers to sign a contract before being allowed to ask Facebook users for rights to their posts.

But privacy experts say Facebook's developer policies at the time allowed programmers to access locations and other data such as relationship status, photos and likes from friends» profiles without notifying them.

The reason concerns the nature of how Facebook handled its users» data before rising privacy concerns prompted it to tighten its policies against what critics have called an egregious kind of abuse — allowing app developers to gain access to information not only on their customers but also on their customers» many Facebook friends.

In his post, Zuckerberg said that steps that the company had taken to restrict developers» access to data in 2015 would prevent the type of misuse that had taken place.

In response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it made a couple of sudden changes to how developers can access some data on its platform.

But as Zuckerberg said, the most important change may have come in 2014, when Facebook limited developers» access to data on users» friends.

Facebook fixed years ago the original loophole in its developer program that allowed Cambridge Analytica to gain access to this data.

According to the company's Open Initiative site, Convio is allowing programmers access to its API, giving outside developers the ability to write software that interacts with data in the Convio system.

The demands came in response to news reports Saturday about how the firm, Cambridge Analytica, used a feature once available to Facebook app developers to collect information on 270,000 people and, in the process, gain access to data on tens of millions of their Facebook «friends» — few, if any, of whom had given explicit permission for this sharing.

Facebook apps, like FarmVille, extend the platform's usability, but in installing them, users often give third - party developers like Kogan access to a significant amount of their own data.

Worse, in 2014, when Kogan's app was gathering data, Facebook's terms of service allowed developers to request access to an app installer's friends as well.

Therefore, mobile app developers can access the targeted ad content delivered to its own app users and then reverse engineer that data to construct a profile of their app customer.