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Facebook Cracking Down on Platform Abuse

People use Facebook to connect with friends and others using all kinds of apps. Facebook’s platform helped make apps social — so your calendar could show your friends’ birthdays, for instance. To do this, we allowed people to log into apps and share who their friends were and some information about them.

As people used the Facebook platform in new ways, we strengthened the rules. We required that developers get people’s permission before they access the data needed to run their apps – for instance, a photo sharing app has to get specific permission from you to access your photos. Over the years we’ve introduced more guardrails, including in 2014, when we began reviewing apps that request certain data before they could launch, and introducing more granular controls for people to decide what information to share with apps. These actions would prevent any app like Aleksandr Kogan’s from being able to access so much data today.

Even with these changes, we’ve seen abuse of our platform and the misuse of people’s data, and we know we need to do more. We have a responsibility to everyone who uses Facebook to make sure their privacy is protected. That’s why we’re making changes to prevent abuse. We’re going to set a higher standard for how developers build on Facebook, what people should expect from them, and, most importantly, from us. We will:

• Review our platform. We will investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before we changed our platform in 2014 to reduce data access, and we will conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity. If we find developers that misused personally identifiable information, we will ban them from our platform.
• Tell people about data misuse. We will tell people affected by apps that have misused their data. This includes building a way for people to know if their data might have been accessed via “thisisyourdigitallife.” Moving forward, if we remove an app for misusing data, we will tell everyone who used it.
• Turn off access for unused apps. If someone hasn’t used an app within the last three months, we will turn off the app’s access to their information.
• Restrict Facebook Login data. We are changing Login, so that in the next version, we will reduce the data that an app can request without app review to include only name, profile photo and email address. Requesting any other data will require our approval.
• Encourage people to manage the apps they use. We already show people what apps their accounts are connected to and control what data they’ve permitted those apps to use. Going forward, we’re going to make these choices more prominent and easier to manage.
• Reward people who find vulnerabilities. In the coming weeks we will expand Facebook’s bug bounty program so that people can also report to us if they find misuses of data by app developers.

There’s more work to do, and we’ll be sharing details in the coming weeks about additional steps we’re taking to put people more in control of their data. Some of these updates were already in the works, and some are related to new data protection laws coming into effect in the EU. This week’s events have accelerated our efforts, and these changes will be the first of many we plan to roll out to protect people’s information and make our platform safer.


Source: Cracking Down on Platform Abuse | Facebook Newsroom

See also: Hard Questions: Update on Cambridge Analytica | Facebook Newsroom

 

Platform Facebook to Open Source Facebook

In the not so distant future, maybe this week, Facebook will transform the year-old Facebook Platform into an open source venture, numerous sources have let us know. The prompt impact will be to enable any interpersonal organization
to end up Facebook Platform perfect – meaning application designers can undoubtedly take their Facebook applications and have them keep running on those informal communities, as well.



Bebo as of now licenses the Facebook Platform, which enables outsiders to make their Facebook applications take a shot at Bebo, as well. With the new declaration, informal communities won't have to experience the bother of doing
an arrangement with Facebook. They'll just guide their current APIs to Facebook Platform (which isn't insignificant) and go. Hope to see the four noteworthy specialized bits of Facebook Platform – FMBL (markup dialect), FQL (inquiry dialect), FJS (Javascript
library) and the Facebook API to be publicly released and made accessible to anybody.



On the off chance that they reflect the Open Social approach, outsiders will be allowed to change the Facebook Platform parts for their own particular utilize and convey them all alone locales. To have those progressions be joined
into the official forms of Facebook Platform, be that as it may, would require Facebook's endorsement.



This is an almost inescapable reaction to Open Social, which is supported by Google, MySpace, and Yahoo. Open Social is likewise an open source stage, keep running by the Open Social Foundation. Facebook has been looking increasingly
like a walled garden recently, and they are by and large routinely out moved by contenders. Time to battle back.

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Intel Readies P55 Chipset B3 Stepping Update

Intel's is readying a hardware update for its P55 Express chipset, currently the only core-logic for the company's brand new socket LGA-1156 processor platform. The new B3 stepping of the P55 PCH will bring with it a little more than new MM number and S-spec numbers. A list of changes is as follows:

• New MM number and S-spec numbers for the converted products;
• Firmware and minor BIOS updates are required with the conversion;
• Processor MRC/microcode update required to enable future processors;
• Recommended storage driver upgrade from Intel MSM 8.9 to Intel RST 9.5.

Although it is listed that the MRC update enables 'future processors', Intel, in a statement issued to X-bit labs assured that the current B2 stepping of the chipset (found on current socket LGA-1156 motherboards) does not leave out support for any of Intel's new LGA-1156 processors that are slated for release in the very near future. The dual-core "Clarkale" 32 nm processor will be supported by both B2 and B3 steppings of the chipset.

P55 B3 stepping is pin-identical to P55 B2, and hence motherboard vendors will not have to come up with new designs. Sampling of the new stepping began as early as on October 02, 2009, and it is scheduled for shipment to manufacturers by the 7th of December, 2009. P55 is the performance core-logic for the LGA-1156 platform. It supports Core i5 and Core i7 "Lynnfield" processors with discrete graphics.

Source: X-bit labs