Facebook Beefs Up Privacy Protection

In response to criticism by the Canadian government, Facebook is enacting far-reaching changes in how third-party applications gain access to personal data, TechCrunch reports. Currently, Facebook applications ask users once, upon installation, for approval to access personal information. Under the new rules, the apps will have to ask repeatedly as they retrieve different types of data, as well as when they take information from other users’ pages.
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