Facebook offers limited access to phone and home address of users to third-party applications.

The word “restricted” is used here because when the user’s phone or home address is requested, the user himself ultimately decides whether to open access to personal information. But if you look at things soberly, then this update can cause big problems, since not many users (both in our country and in the West) pay attention to what is written in some kind of queries. Usually, the first available button is pressed, without reading this boring accompanying text, and this button is either “allow” or “yes”. Anything, the user will make, if only to remove as soon as possible these boring windows with some sort of requests. But it is clear that the users themselves will have to deal with the consequences of their frivolous behavior.

Information about this Facebook update is available on the official developer blog, a link to the technical details below. As a result of the update, applications on Facebook have no difference between whether access to a photo or the list of “friends” is requested, or access to the phone and home address of the user.
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To date, unscrupulous Facebook developers have created applications that requested access to the user's wall, and then these applications spammed on the wall of the user who inadvertently granted the application such rights.

Now, you can probably expect applications that will send spam via SMS, or you can transfer the data of Facebook users to their creators, who will send paper spam.

By the way, the news on the Facebook developers blog scored a large number of comments of users dissatisfied with this update, although there are those who liked this news (there are only 560 of them so far, which is understandable, a drop in the ocean compared to the total number of users of this social network).

I wonder if Vkontakte intends to use the experience of colleagues?

Via developers.facebook.com