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Social legal and ethical isuues of social networking website Facebook

...... The companys policies were defended by the Facebook officials by claiming that the types of useful applications that can be developed will be curtailed if the access to users data is limited to the developers. Several aspects of the access of data cannot be fine tuned by the users because the settings are buried somewhat and changing them involves going to the privacy section and selecting profile section. They further claim security and privacy to be a major priority for Facebook
B.J. Fogg who is a director for Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University and also co-teaches Facebook application development course at the university concurs that more information than is necessary can be seen by the Facebook applications. However there are minimal risks for use of the Facebook applications and involves trade-offs between benefits and risks.Since sensitive data such as social security numbers are not stored in the site, there isnt much damage that can be done even if the all the information from the users Facebook profile are snag up by the malicious application developers. He further adds that there is high incentive for strict enforcement of the policies of Facebook and abusive applications ban. Monitoring of the