Facebook acknowledges app developers selling user information

The data economy Business Rapleaf Company and Facebook reached an agreement to delete all of its user information; The app developer was banned from landing on the platform six months ago. Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, has been using developers to sell user ID information,　　The company gave the developers six months to prohibit the landing of the site punishment. The Wall Street Journal said Facebook posted the information announcement on October 29. Facebook says a data broker has been buying user ID information from app developers. This information can be used by other companies to build an Internet user database by tracking online activity. "While these applications do not sell or approve data providers to obtain information that is set by the user as a private state, this violates our serious privacy policy." "Facebook has reached an agreement with the data economy business Rapleaf, Rapleaf will delete all of the Facebook user ID information and will not do any activities on the platform," the newspaper said.　　Facebook, for those involved in application developers, has banned them from landing on the company's web site within six months.　　According to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook does not show that Rapleaf is the data broker who buys user information from app developers, nor does it publish the name of the app developer, but says it has no more than more than 10, mostly small developers. In mid-October, the Wall Street Journal survey said 10 of the hottest apps on Facebook were suspected of providing a user ID to a third-party company.