Facebook developers exiled for selling user IDs to brokers

[siljaline]

[...]
Facebook is taking action against developers who flouted company rules by selling unique user IDs to a data broker.

The unnamed developers, which numbered fewer than 12, won't have access to Facebook communication channels
for six months, Facebook platform engineer Mike Vernal said on Friday. They also will be required to submit their
data practices to a third-party auditor to confirm they comply with Facebook policies.

Facebook has also reached an agreement with data broker Rapleaf, which according to a Wall Street Journal
investigation linked Facebook user IDs it got from games developers to its own database of Internet users,
which it sells. Rapleaf will delete all the IDs in its possession and has promised not to conduct similar activities in the future.
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(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11...lopers_exiled/)

Silj

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siljaline wrote:

> Facebook is taking action against developers who flouted company rules
> by selling unique user IDs to a data broker.
>
> The unnamed developers, which numbered fewer than 12, won't have
> access to Facebook communication channels for six months, ...

So the greedy *******s get reassigned but still earn an income from the
company whose policies they violated. Oh yeah, like there's a company
that really cares about enforcement of its policies. God forbid the
*******s get FIRED.