Facebook To Release ‘Anonymous Login’

Facebook is creating new provisions for user privacy in 3rd party applications which use their login API. They’ve heard users concerns with logging into other sites and apps using their Facebook credentials and are soon to launch Anonymous Login.

Anonymous Login will allow users to log in while giving the bare minimum amount of information required per application, potentially avoiding assuming a users real name as their username or their profile picture for their avatar. For users who wish for select information to be made accessible to certain services, (if implemented by the individual service) users will be able to choose certain aspects to hide and others to be utilized by the service. Facebook’s new Vimeo video gives a brief glimpse of a permissions page not unlike Android’s app permissions.

Facebook is looking to help app developers ensure that the only data being pulled from users’ accounts is essential and/or specifically allowed by each individual user. The appropriation will be decided during Facebook’s login review.

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It’s an excellent and necessary move by the social patriarch. Soon, we may no longer have to worry whether our friends and family will see automatically posted high scores on Flappy 2048 Cookie Doge Sim.