Facebook Punishes Developers for Passing on User IDs

Facebook is punishing several application developers for passing certain information to a data broker in the latest move by the social networking site to control growing concerns over privacy.

Facebook will deny those application developers access to "communication channels" for six months, wrote Mike Vernal, on Facebook's blog, late on Friday. The developers number fewer than a dozen, he said.

The developers were being paid by a data broker for user IDs, unique numerical identifiers assigned to the site's users, which can appear in a URL when they use the site.

As a result, "we will require these developers to submit their data practices to an audit in the future to confirm that they are in compliance with our policies," Vernal wrote. "This impacts fewer than a dozen, mostly small developers, none of which are in the top 10 applications on Facebook Platform."

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