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Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Name address and so on i, well, understand if you buy something online to fill that in. But sns and id??? Thats all kinds of stupid. Why would you give thata willingly to fb? Its not a government entity or even a bank.

[–] EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It could be that some of that data was scraped from FB messenger.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

That quote comes the time facebook was not open to the public yet. just fellow students of his.