Secure.me's App Advisor Grades The Safety Of Facebook Applications
Not all Facebook applications are created equal. Secure.me, which is akin to virus protection for pages, recently launched the App Advisor — a report card for more than 500,000 apps on the Facebook platform. On Wednesday, the site will introduce a browser plugin that rates the trustworthiness of an app (or a site that integrates Facebook), based on what kind of personal data it requires.
Not all Facebook applications are created equal. Secure.me, which is akin to virus protection for pages, recently launched the App Advisor — a report card for more than 500,000 apps on the Facebook platform. On Wednesday, the site will introduce a browser plug-n that rates the trustworthiness of an app (or a site that integrates Facebook), based on what kind of personal data it requires.
The site has a database of more than 500,000 Facebook apps — everything from Are You Interested to Zynga Bingo — and grades them on a range from high reputation to very poor reputation, taking into account what the app asks from users.
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