Facebook Says User Data Sold To Broker

Geoffrey Fowler & Emily Steel

Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice.

The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers' blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 3, 2010 1:03 AM
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