Facebook has been forced to shut down two of it’s top applications this week after ‘privacy violations’.
Top Friends (which I’m sure most of you have heard of) was created by Slide and lets you to rank your friends in order of how much you like them. It was Facebook’s forth biggest application, but had to be removed after a hacker published users’ private details.
Hi Social was around the 25th most popular application on Facebook, with over 280,000 daily active users. The app lets uses find out what their friends really think of them, but has also had to be removed.
Facebook has said they are looking into each case and the Information Commissioner’s Office are meeting with Facebook this week to discuss the privacy issues on the site.
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