Facebook Apps Leaking User Info to Third Parties

Updated: Some of the most popular Facebook apps — including games such as Zynga’s Farmville, which has almost 60 million monthly users — have been routinely transmitting information about Facebook users to third parties, including companies such as Rapleaf that are building profiles for sale to advertisers and marketers, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Facebook told the newspaper that it is planning to introduce new systems that will make it harder for apps to send user data to other companies, something that is a breach of Facebook’s terms of use.