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Speaker: Paul Fenwick

Facebook. Your friends are using it. Your workmates are using it. Chances are youre using it. Facebook is already well known one of the worlds most popular social networking platforms, but its also rapidly becoming one of the worlds most popular application platforms too.

The popularity of Facebook applications is unsurprising. Theyre easy to write, as well as being easy to share and install. However most users remain unaware of what information can be accessed by their applications, and more surprisingly, by their friends applications.

Join researcher Paul Fenwick as he examines just how much information he can extract from friends using only the Facebook API.