Facebook apps are sharing personal info, but is Facebook making it harder to remove them?
After reading yet another article about privacy issues with Facebook apps, I was planning to eliminate unused apps from my account and check the privacy settings and policies of others. After 5 minutes of searching for my applications, I checked the Facebook help pages — which weren’t much help, as you can see here. Would Facebook intentionally make apps more difficult to remove or did someone screw up here? I’m not one to assume the worst, but as this page seems increasingly difficult to find with every update to their user interface, I’m starting to wonder. Or am I just missing the not-so-obvious new location of the application settings link?
If you use Facebook but don’t want your personal information leaked all over the Web, you had better make sure you don’t use any of Facebook’s most popular apps. According to an investigation by the Wall Street Journal, “tens of millions” of apps on Facebook transmit varying amounts of identifying information to their own personal ad servers, even in cases when users’ profiles were set to completely private.
