READ MORE: Facebook Apps Allowing Access to Numbers, Addresses | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "Facebook recently announced that it is making user phone numbers and addresses available to developers, a move that a security expert said 'could herald a new level of danger' for Facebook members.
Facebook isn't just releasing this information into the wild; it's adding it to the company's 'User Graph object,' or the permissions required to install an app.
'Because this is sensitive information, we have created the new user_address and user_mobile_phone permissions,' Facebook wrote in a blog post. 'These permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions dialogs.'"
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