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Facebook允许第三方应用开发商获取用户联系方式

发布时间:2011-01-17 10:54:24 Tags:,,,

最近,Facebook在旗下的开发者博客上宣布“将允许分享Facebook用户的地址和手机号码信息,作为‘用户图谱(User Graph)’计划的一部分”。也就是说,社交网站Facebook现在允许第三方应用获取用户的联系方式。

据游戏邦了解,Facebook的通告中表示“由于这是一则敏感的消息…然而该项许可必须经过用户的常规许可后,第三方应用才能获取用户的联系方式”。下图便是许可请求的常规窗口:

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正如上图所见,在该许可窗口中人们难以注意到其中包含了一些此前未涉及的用户信息。人们极有可能没注意到文中的“地址和手机号码”,然后不经意的一点“许可”,对外透露更多的个人信息。

然而据游戏邦了解,值得庆幸的是用户的通讯方式不会由于好友的粗心大意而被迫分享。“该许可仅提供用户的地址和手机号码信息,无法查阅用户好友的地址和手机号码信息”。

您是如何看到Facebook分享您手机号码和地址的做法呢?虽然这一做法必须经过用户的许可,但Facebook是否提供了足够的视觉提示呢?(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Facebook recently announced on its developer blog that it will now be “making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object.” In other words, the site will now let third-party applications (think Farmville or that spammy app your friends keep falling for that promises to show them who is stalking them on Facebook) access your contact information.

“Because this is sensitive information,” reads the announcement, “[...]permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions dialogs.” Take a look at the example permission dialogs box, however, and tell us if you think this is enough.

As All Facebook points out, there is very little here to call attention to the fact that Facebook would now be sharing something that it previously did not share. In this particular dialog box, it’s only one of two items, but many similar boxes contain more. “[Users] probably won’t notice the addition of the words ‘current address and mobile phone number’ to the text, and likely click ‘allow’ without noticing that they’re actually granting more access than ever before,” writes Jackie Cohen for All Facebook.

Thankfully, this sort of information cannot be shared via your friends’ careless actions, unlike other profile information. According to Facebook’s blog post, “these permissions only provide access to a user’s address and mobile phone number, not their friend’s addresses or mobile phone numbers.”

What do you think about Facebook sharing your phone number and address? Of course, the responsibility of actually sharing that information comes down to whether or not you click that “Allow” button, but is it visually distinct enough? Does it come down to the age old rule that if you don’t want it to be public, you don’t put it on the Internet? Or do you see this as Facebook selling out its users and betraying their trust? (Source:readwriteweb)


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