《华尔街日报》最近披露《宝石迷阵2》（Bejeweled 2）、《愤怒的小鸟》（Angry Birds）等多款手机应用向第三方发送用户个人数据的消息后，手机游戏开发商PopCap、Rovio公司立即作出回应，称该报道纯粹是在误导游戏玩家。

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据游戏邦了解，PopCap公司发言人Ed Allard声称，《宝石迷阵2》仅向用户的Facebook帐号传送个人信息，“最近的报道称不少iPhone应用都在向第三方发送用户个人信息，这一点误导了PopCap的游戏用户，我们可以向玩家保证，《宝石迷阵2》的iPhone版本只有在连接到用户Facebook帐号时，才会将用户姓名和密码发送到Facebook。”

同时他还补充道，只有经过用户的允许，PopCap的游戏系统才会向Facebook发送个人信息，如果用户创建了自己的Facebook帐号，同时又指定了默认的手机号码，那么他们就可以选择通过《宝石迷阵2》iPhone版本的系统，向Facebook发送或不发送手机号码、用户名、密码这些信息，系统会出现一个Facebook登陆对话框，要求他们输入相关信息，用户完成操作后才能登陆Facebook继续以手机帐号玩《宝石迷阵2》。

游戏邦另外还了解道，《愤怒的小鸟》开发商Rovio公司也否认该游戏存在用户信息外泄的隐患，在《华尔街日报》的报道发布数小时后立即表示，“《愤怒的小鸟》绝对没有搜集或收藏与用户个人相关联的信息，而且我们的iOS版本游戏跟广告也不沾边”，直指《华尔街日报》的文章“含糊其辞，给我们的用户造成了极大的困扰。”（本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译，转载请注明来源：游戏邦）

PopCap head Ed Allard on why web reports on app data privacy concerns are misleading

Following up on recent claims instigated by the Wall Street Journal that iOS and Android apps are sending user data to third parties without permission, an official statement has been released by PopCap head of studios Ed Allard.

PopCap’s Bejeweled 2 was one of the apps highlighted by the paper in its report.

However, according to Allard, the only data transmitted by the game is as a result of users linking the app to their Facebook account.

Data denotation

“Recent reports on user data and transmissions to third parties for a variety of iPhone applications have been misleading and possibly confusing for PopCap customers,” PocketGamer.biz was informed.

“PopCap would like to assure players of Bejeweled 2 for iPhone that only after they link the game to their Facebook account, will PopCap transmit that player’s user name and password to Facebook.”

As argued by commentators in response to the Wall Street Journal’s report, it would appear many of the data transmissions highlighted by the paper are both legitimate and above board.

In Bejeweled 2′s case, Allard states the sending of app data only occurs when permission is granted by the user and, as is no doubt the case with many of the other apps mentioned in the report, actually adds to the experience.

Player power

“If a player has set up his or her Facebook account to authenticate the account using their phone number, then the player has the option of transmitting his or her phone number to Facebook through the Bejeweled 2 application on iPhone,” he adds.

“The transmission of user name, password and phone number is optional and occurs only after explicit player input through a Facebook login dialog box for Blitz mode. After logging in to Facebook, players can interact with their Facebook account through Bejeweled 2 on their iPhone.”

PopCap’s statement follows a similar denial of wrongdoing by Angry Birds studio Rovio.

“Angry Birds does not under any circumstances collect or store personally identifiable information that could be connected in any way to individual users,” a spokesperson for the developer told Develop within hours of the original report hitting the web.

“Absolutely none of this has anything to do with advertisers – we don’t have advertising in our games on the iOS,” Rovio added, describing the Wall Street Journal article as “vague enough to instigate mistrust in our users”. （source:pocketgamer）