Facebook Mistakenly Leaked Developer Analytics Reports To Testers (techcrunch.com) 14
This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch, informing us that their Facebook App Analytics weekly summary email had been delivered to someone outside their company. TechCrunch: It contains sensitive business information, including weekly average users, page views and new users. Forty-three hours after we contacted Facebook about the issue, the social network now confirms to TechCrunch that 3 percent of apps using Facebook Analytics had their weekly summary reports sent to their app's testers, instead of only the app's developers, admins and analysts. Testers are often people outside of a developer's company. If the leaked info got to an app's competitors, it could provide them an advantage. At least they weren't allowed to click through to view more extensive historical analytics data on Facebook's site. Facebook tells us it has fixed the problem and no personally identifiable information or contact info was improperly disclosed.
But remember (Score:2)
Facebook can be trusted with your data.
They are spending millions and millions of dollars to make sure you get this wonderful news.
Mistake (Score:2)
The only mistake here is that Facebook was not being paid.
Mistakenly .... it's a feature, not a bug (Score:1)
Let's get real, FB wants to monetize all of your metadeta and your data, and will do it any way it can.
So they may claim it was a bug, but they planned to include it in a Premium add-on for the people they sell your data and metadata to, is my extrapolation, based on their prior behavior.