You’re either misunderstanding or misrepresenting what is happening here.
The website or app implements Facebook Login. When a user visits that they can choose to share their profile information with that app. Through poor security or malicious action that app leaks that information to third parties.
You can’t control data on systems you don’t own. So Facebook’s options are either (a) limit how platform apps use data via non-technical/legal methods (b) better educate users on the implications of sharing their data with external apps, or (c) refuse to share any user data with external apps.
We’ve seen the first option fail with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Educating users consistently fails. And before Facebook built a platform, they were accused of building a walled garden.
The website or app implements Facebook Login. When a user visits that they can choose to share their profile information with that app. Through poor security or malicious action that app leaks that information to third parties.
You can’t control data on systems you don’t own. So Facebook’s options are either (a) limit how platform apps use data via non-technical/legal methods (b) better educate users on the implications of sharing their data with external apps, or (c) refuse to share any user data with external apps.
We’ve seen the first option fail with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Educating users consistently fails. And before Facebook built a platform, they were accused of building a walled garden.