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I am an engineer working on Platform Integrity at Facebook. Just as friends can't consent to transferring friend data outside of an app, they also can't consent

by eugenez 14y ago

I am an engineer working on Platform Integrity at Facebook. Just as friends can't consent to transferring friend data outside of an app, they also can't consent to an app taking actions on their friends' behalf (such as posting a story when the friend didn't consent to it). Even if it's funny.

gailees 14y ago
It's people taking actions on behalf of themselves.
- gailees 14y ago
  People just happen to be using it innapropriately.
  - carbocation 14y ago
    Because you're inducing them to do so. I think your app is funny, but the language makes it clear that the intent is at odds with FB's platform rules.
    - gailees 14y ago
      Yeah...we've come to see that the language was encouraging behavior that was clearly against the spirit of the Facebook platform. We have since removed most of that language.
      - interg12 14y ago
        How does changing the language absolve you from the implications of your malicious app.
  - interg12 14y ago
    It can't be used appropriately.
- nbpoole 14y ago
  From the homepage: "BuddyHack: Did a friend leave Facebook open? Mess with it now." It's an app designed to be authorized on someone else's account. You make that pretty clear.
pallinder 14y ago
Any way to get ahold of you guys and ask questions about ideas etc to help understand what is legal before building it?
- eugenez 14y ago
  Best ways are to check https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ https://developers.facebook.com/policy/ thoroughly - it's actually a very well written and concise set of policies - or come see us at one of the hackathons we frequently run (such as the UPenn one mentioned in this thread).