Facebook Will Let Developers Ask For Mobile Numbers, But Will Do More to Highlight Risks
Facebook has responded to Congressman Ed Markey’s questions about its plan to allow users to grant applications access to their phone number and home addresses. The response explains that Facebook is considering answering widespread criticism of the plan by highlighting contact information requests in the permissions screen and barring apps from asking minors for this info.
On January 14th, Facebook announced in a post on its Developers Blog that it would begin allowing users to authorize applications to access their mobile phone number and home address through that standard “Requests for Permission” dialog that users see when installing apps.
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