[malenm]

This was exactly my point - the fact you can't prove that the app isn't doing something suspicious is true of every app. Yes, there are a lot of personal details on Facebook. There are on your phone, too. These are not Timeline-removal app-specific.

Yesterday, there was a post on Hacker News about the Wolfram Alpha Facebook Analytics [1] with very little concern about privacy (3 comments out of 104 mention privacy). My issue with this post is that it needlessly targets Timeline removal apps when it just seems to be making a general statement about being careful when installing any app.

[1]http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/08/wolframalpha-personal...

[Karunamon]

Understood, but they took the time to compare all of the ones available in the chrome store, and roughly half of them (!) were requesting permissions they absolutely didn't need to function. That is worthy of mentioning, IMHO.

Lazy developer or spyware?