Yesterday the Financial Times reported that European privacy regulators may place tighter restrictions on the type of personal data that’s shared with third-party developers. The argument is that users don’t understand what information is being sent when they install an application. One US privacy advocate in the article is quoted, “Users don’t know their information is being collected and used.” While I’m not quite sure about what users are aware of, it’s also clear that the privacy advocates don’t have a clear understanding of how things currently function.
Privacy is extremely important to Facebook, who has developed some of the…
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