Individual developers of applications for the social network Facebook users appear to have IDs collected and sold to a data distributor. The company announced that on Friday in a blog post on the developer with. The questionable practice is the examination of a data protection is problematic gap noticed the applications unintentionally individual user IDs prices slipped on.

Facebook stresses its own data protection rules by which applications should disclose any personal user data including the ID for display or data service dealer. After it was known that this happens accidentally, in some cases it has matched the Facebook rules. In addition, the operator will provide the opportunity for programmers, an anonymous identification applications via the API. In investigating the accidental disclosure, according to ID some Facebook developers have noticed that could be paid from a different dealer for user IDs. According to Facebook, there are "fewer than a dozen" Dangerous developers on a six-month ban was imposed. In future, the operator will check the data handling these developments.

There are no private data of users have been sold, says the operator, also allowed access to the IDs of any personal data. However, IDs can be extrapolated from the user name and determine which pages of the affected users of publicly available information to profiling to detect. Same time, Facebook says that the data aggregator RapLeaf had agreed IDs in his possession to delete all users and the platform in the future to stay away.