Facebook grants access to third parties to users’ mobile phone numbers!

Facebook has posted a new message on its developer blog placing an entry titled "Platform Updates: New User Object fields, Edge.remove Event and more." In the passage the social networking giant explains that it gives access to mobile phones and home addresses of the users to the third parties.

"We are now making a user's address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object," wrote Facebook's Jeff Bowen. "Because this is sensitive information, we have created the new user_address and user_mobile phone permissions. These permissions must be explicitly granted to your application by the user via our standard permissions dialogs."

The permission will look like this:

"Please note that these permissions only provide access to a user's address and mobile phone number, not their friend's addresses or mobile phone numbers," says Bowen.

Thereby, now any site or app that uses Facebook integration can get direct access to your phone number and home address if you provide that info to Facebook.