Germany Gets Facebook To Cut Down Spam
Officials in Hamburg, Germany have pressured Facebook to spamming people to join the social network after a contact uses the Friend Finder feature; apparently these messages went out even to people that hadn't been expressly invited by a human.
German government officials have pressured Facebook to stop spamming people to join the social network after a contact uses the Friend Finder feature; apparently these messages went out even to people that hadn’t been expressly invited by a human.
The company agreed to change this after the city of Hamburg’s data protection office made official complaints to Facebook, according to Der Spiegel. The officials had responded to gripes from people who got emails that included images from profiles of contacts from messaging address books.
The spam had showed signs that Facebook retained the contents of users’ address books from third-party applications well after said users had sent out invitations, and messages went out to people who hadn’t specifically been invited by the person who’d used the Friend Finder feature.
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