Recently, many players had to re-grant permission to Mafia Wars to gain access to your Facebook information. This is because there was an update. Here are screen shots of what was required before and what is required now.
Now: 4 Required Items
Then: 2 Required Items
Mafia Wars also requests that you give them permission to access other information but it can be removed.
To get to your Application Settings Page, go to your Account Menu and select Account Settings.
You can see what information you allowed Mafia Wars to access and remove what you don't wish them to have access to. What's really interesting is there is a way to see what they have been accessing. Towards the bottom there is an option that says "Last data access".
Click on "See details" to find out how much spying Zynga has been doing.
You might be surprised by what you find. Your access log will list when Zynga went snooping in your Facebook account and what they were looking at. Why do they need to know all this and more importantly what are they doing with this information?
Go here to learn more about the Access Log.
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| Article written by Jennifer Patterson, Creator of the MW Loot Lady Blog, The Mafia Wars Loot Lady Facebook Fan Page and Co-Host of The Informant Podcast. |
So what happens if I remove everything possible?
ReplyDeleteI noticed on the applications' options page, there are 3 Zynga apps! What gives?
ReplyDeleteI removed all but one
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Maybe they want to see what sort of items/events they should create etc by judging from people's info..?
ReplyDeleteI removed everything that wasn't required only to have to add it back in order to run FBAddon.
ReplyDeleteI am with you on why do they need to access to everything they are looking at? Friends of friends? Friends personal info? This is a game....not a socialist state!
ReplyDeleteF U zynga, yesterday i was asked for permissions 10x, all were clicked DON'T ALLOW and double check in privacy settings
ReplyDeletefrom zynga terms
We do not, and cannot, pre-screen or monitor all User Content. However, at our discretion, our representatives or technology may monitor and/or record your interaction with the Service or communications (including without limitation chat text) when you are using the Service.
they can record chat, this is a huge privacy invasion !!!
How do you add them back once you removed them? There is no add button anywhere?
ReplyDelete