Facebook stops third-party apps from stealing users' data

San Francisco, April 25 Facebook has finally begun its crackdown on third-party apps from stealing, sharing or spamming your data without permission from its platform as well as from Instagram. In a post on its developers' page late on Tuesday, Facebook said the new apps "created from today onwards will not have access to publish posts to Facebook as the logged in user". "A new permission model that allows apps to publish Videos to their User's Groups and Timeline will be created instead," said Facebook. Several third-party trackers are still abusing Facebook Login, exfiltrating users' data including name, email address, age range, gender, locale and profile photo, claimed a new security research report from Freedom to Tinker -- a digital initiative by Princeton University's Centre for Information Technology Policy. The researchers found two types of vulnerabilities: Seven third parties abusing websites' access to Facebook user data and one-third party using its own Facebook "application" to track users around the web.