Facebook Declares “Zero Tolerance” for Data Brokers

Link: Facebook Declares “Zero Tolerance” for Data Brokers

“On Facebook’s Developers blog, the world’s largest social networking company declared ‘zero tolerance’ for data brokers, after a recent Wall St. Journal investigation revealed that some Facebook application developers have been selling Facebook users’ information to data brokering firms.

Facebook has responded to this news by banning the developers engaging in this practice from the site for a period of six months. To regain entry, the companies will have to …”

by Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb (@rww)