Here is the real thing Behind the Data Collection of the Facebook Third Party Apps that might Secretly Spying on your Facebook account.
There are lots of third-party apps on Facebook and outside Facebook which allows you to Easily connect with other social Websites, Games also helps you to post and Share Content easily with you Friend,Followers and allows you to store your game data that your are playing on Facebook & helps you to create account for the particular site easily. But the thing we forget that some of them have access to our Facebook Account and have access to our Personal data's including our Gender, Age, Place, Address, Friend List, Photos, Posts.etc
Before giving access to your Facebook Account, you should really need to know about the Apps on the Facebook & How it Works?
How Third Party Apps on Facebook Apps works?
Third apps working on Facebook use API(Application Programming Interfaces) method which are the hidden source to the Normal users just like me and you and the Developer give set of rules to there application includes which data need to be needed for the Working of the Application.
What is Facebook API?
in Simple Words, we can say that Facebook API is a Set of Functions or rules that allow the Third party apps to access your Personal information including your Gender, Age, Place, Address, Friend List .etc. some of these apps need these type of data to work properly.
How Normal users get caught by the Third-Party Facebook Apps?
There are lots of methods the developer use to promote there apps, in general term, we can call it phishing it's the term used in the Hacking, so don't get too complicated.Developer Promote there apps by running various Advertisements. on Facebook that normal user which have less Knowledge of technology is easily fell into the trap of them . an Example for this is have you ever tried the Facebook third-party app called "Friends Toppers","Friends Classroom", Free Mobile Recharge"- these apps have access to our personal information including Photos, Friends List and all other Public Profile Information including Posts, Comments, Like.
How Third-Party Facebook App Spreading.?
The main reason is of Third-Party Apps are spreading around the Facebook is that when one of our friends has accidentally tried the app the app post the content on the wall of him which are visible to his friend that the way it gets spread and gets access to the Personal Data.
What are the things Things third party apps do on your Facebook Account when you give Access?
- When you give access to the third-party apps it reads your posts, comments.
- automatically post to your Facebook wall.
What you need to Know about the Third-party Apps before giving Access through API?
The thing you need to keep in mind that, when you click on the third-party apps on Facebook you can see that it then tell you to provide certain information that the app needs to work properly.
- Don't connect the Third party app that needs access your personal information like Age, Gender, Place, Photos, Post, Comments, Like.
- Always Read the Privacy and Policy of the Third-Party apps before connecting.
- Don't use Facebook login on Websites & Android apps which provides easy account creation method.
- How to Make you Facebook account Secure?
- Remove unwanted apps from your Facebook app that are access your data.
- always check your privacy settings.
Removing Third-Party apps will really secure you Facebook Account.?
I removed about 230 apps from my Facebook account that have access to my Personal information including - Age,Gender,religion,Photos,Friends List,Post,Comments,Email Address. the shocking thing when i checked before removing them . i got a popup which say "Note: Tengi may still have the data you shared with them. For details about removing this data, please contact Tengi or visit the Tengi Privacy Policy." but no working link or way to contact them to remove the data.
Below are the things i got suspicious about.
- some of the apps have Same Privacy and Policy like this url - http://a.pgtb.me/privacy.(Facebook Please Look into this because majority apps have this i hope so).
- Some of them are using fake domains,Expired Domains as privacy& Policy link,also leads to malicious,phishing websites.
- Some of them leads to Parallel Plesk default page hosted on https://hostindia.net.from there you can get the admin panel URL like the URL - http://fbdigital.hungama.org:8443.
- The interesting thing is that one app leads to Avira antivirus general-privacy policy page & the other one leads to Facebook app development page as privacy policy page.
- some of the Apps leads to Deceptive site which will trick you into doing something dangerous like software or revealing personal information like passwords or credit cards - here is the URL i got on one app -fbappwork.com/themobilestore/samsung/terms/php.
- some of the application leads to an Error page which says "Sorry,the application you were using is misconfigured. please try again later like this one - fbappwork.com/themobilestore/samsung/terms/php.
Here some Screenshot of the Privacy Page of Third-party Apps.
Below are the suspecious URL i got from the apps (Facebook Please Consider this)
fb.c3-interactive.com/pp_htc.html
http://a.pgtb.me/privacy (Common Privacy and Policy).
fbappwork.com/themobilestore/samsung/terms/php.
reddit.com/domain/a.pgtb.me (More pgtb urls use same privacy).
a.pgtb.me/privacy ( Main pgtb url).