Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress next weekteam to answer questions about the company's privacy and data policy.
Meanwhile Facebook has announced some changes to its APIs.
Οι αλλαγές δεν αποτελούν έκπληξη, καθώς το Facebook είχε ανακοινώσει ότι διενεργεί έλεγχο "όλων των εφαρμογών που είχαν access σε μεγάλες ποσότητες πληροφοριών πριν την αλλαγή της πλατφόρμας το 2014."
The new constraints concern several APIs: specifically APIs of Events, Groups, Pages, and Instagram.
Here are some of the changes:
- Access to API Events, Groups, Pages, and Instagram ends with new developers.
- From now on, all applications that access or seek access to Events, Groups, and Pages APIs should be subject to an official review. This means that applications currently accessing Events and Groups APIs will lose access as long as they are controlled.
- Facebook also closes part of Instagram's API, which was scheduled to take place on July 31.
- Apps that seek to use the Groups API must first be approved by a Group Administrator.
- Το Facebook θα εγκρίνει την πρόσβαση στο API των Pages με βάση το εάν οι εφαρμογές "παρέχουν χρήσιμες services στην κοινότητα".
- Accessing participants' list of Events invited will no longer be available in applications using the Events API
The company also announced that from Monday a link will appear at the top of users' news feed, leading to a σελίδα which will show how much of their data is shared with third-party apps.
At a teleconference with reporters, Zuckerberg said the goal of the changes was to ensure that users could only share the data they choose with applications they want to connect.
You can read more about the direct changes made to APIs from here.
