<p>The popular site has imposed a six-month moratorium on these application developers on their access to Facebook's communication channels.<br /><br />Applications or 'apps' are programmes that allow users to communicate with others or play games, among others, on the social networking site.<br /><br />"As we examined the circumstances of inadvertent User ID transfers, we discovered some instances where a data broker was paying developers for UIDs...," Facebook said in a blog.<br /><br />Recently, media reports had said that certain Facebook applications are sharing the users' information with third parties.<br /><br />The transfer of these UIDs did not give access to any private data, Facebook noted.<br /><br />According to the blog, the six-month moratorium impacts "impacts fewer than a dozen, mostly small developers, none of which, are in the top 10 applications on Facebook platform."<br /><br />"Facebook has never sold and will never sell user information," the blog said.<br /><br />The social networking site has significant number of users in India and had recently opened its first office in the country in Hyderabad.</p>
<p>The popular site has imposed a six-month moratorium on these application developers on their access to Facebook's communication channels.<br /><br />Applications or 'apps' are programmes that allow users to communicate with others or play games, among others, on the social networking site.<br /><br />"As we examined the circumstances of inadvertent User ID transfers, we discovered some instances where a data broker was paying developers for UIDs...," Facebook said in a blog.<br /><br />Recently, media reports had said that certain Facebook applications are sharing the users' information with third parties.<br /><br />The transfer of these UIDs did not give access to any private data, Facebook noted.<br /><br />According to the blog, the six-month moratorium impacts "impacts fewer than a dozen, mostly small developers, none of which, are in the top 10 applications on Facebook platform."<br /><br />"Facebook has never sold and will never sell user information," the blog said.<br /><br />The social networking site has significant number of users in India and had recently opened its first office in the country in Hyderabad.</p>