Facebook Was Accused Of Lying About The Verified Apps

Washington, USA --Facebook accused have done lies by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Social networking was considered misleading information for developers and the public about security by lying about the application is verified or "Verified Apps".

Applications that are included in a list of Verified Apps will be given a special mark, check-mark and a nice profile in the search results. This application is also claimed as a secure application.

"The Application Verification Program is designed to offer extra assurances to help users identify applications they can trust, i.e. applications that are safe, transparent and in accordance with our policy," Facebook's claims at the time.

But the FTC in its report as detikINET quotation from TG Daily, Wednesday (15/8/2012) Verified Apps is called is just nonsense. According to the FTC, no testing of Facebook to provide such labels.

"Contrary to statements of Facebook, the social networking do not act anything before giving the label Verified Apps," the FTC report. In fact, according to the results of the investigation, the FTC, in many instances let Facebook Platform Application to display the label Verified Apps.

Verified Apps Program closed in December 2009, after six months of operation. Facebook describes this closure by reason of wanting to expand the method ' verification ' to all Facebook applications. In this program, the FTC noted there were 254 applications are verified.

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