Facebook says apps transmitted user information (AP)

 

The logo of social networking website 'Facebook' is displayed on a computer screen in London 2007. Many popular applications on Facebook are violating the social network's rules and transmitting identifying information about users to advertising and Internet tracking companies, The Wall Street Journal reported.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AP – The latest Facebook privacy fiasco shows that the world’s largest online social hub is having a hard time putting this thorny issue behind it even as it continues to attract users and become indispensible to many of them.

 

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