Facebook allowed thousands of app developers to harvest data through third-party online games and quizzes.
Google has a popular analytics service.
And Amazon, Google, and Twitter all offer login features.
These companies and many others also offer advertising services.
In fact, most websites and apps send the same information to multiple companies each time you visit them.
YouTube then sends it to you.
Baser said the team collects information on individuals for their own benefit.
This is because other apps and sites dont know who is using Facebook, Baser added.
Period, he concluded.
This feels like perfectly justifiable for the social media giant.
It says it wants to put its Facebook users in control.
source: www.techworm.net
