Facebook Updates the Upcoming Apps Dashboards to Address Privacy Concerns

Last week, we wrote about privacy concerns regarding the upcoming application and games dashboards which are planned for launch to all users sometime this month. The issue was the automatic display of application activity to all of a user’s friends; the dashboard would list the most three recently used applications, and how recently the interaction happened. Although for the most part users would likely have no issue with this, there were two privacy concerns that we highlighted:

  • The first was that some applications were of a type that a user may not want all of their friends knowing that they’re using.
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