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by bobds 5542 days ago
There's a link above the FB login button named "what will you do with my data?":

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* We go through all of your friends and see which one's have a defined relationship status.

* For each friend we take everything they like and run it against our database to determine which like reflects their relationship status.

* If we don't have any data, we choose a random like and hope it's funny.

The only data we keep are combinations of relationship statuses and likes.

2 comments

So why did you need permission to post on my wall? As soon as I saw that, I closed the window.
We have an option that says "Notify friend when I agree or disagree" to promote virality. It defaults to false, but I should clarify this in the note.
I also closed it the second it asked to post on my wall. You need to make it ask when you intend on doing it, because there's no way I will ever sign up for an app that asks to post on my wall.

let alone when I have no idea what they do.

just some feedback.. that link is microscopic next to the huge add FB button.. no one's going to notice that.. ( I didn't until you pointed it out)