Facebook Confirms Privacy Issue With Applications – No matter how many times Facebook tries to change their privacy settings to be user-friendly, they just seem to find themselves in the same hole trying to dig out. In the latest privacy issue with Facebook, the company confirms that applications do in fact share personal data with third party companies.

This whole privacy issue came out this past weekend when The Wall Street Journal reported that several of the most popular Facebook applications were “providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names” to third party companies.

For those that are addicts of popular games such as Farmville and Mafia Wars, those are included in the 10 popular applications on Facebook that were transmitting personal data.

Facebook has recently addressed the issue. They did confirm that several applications were passing a piece of data, a user ID, to third party companies that violated its privacy policy. Of course, they are trying to downplay the entire issues stating “press reports have exaggerated the implications of sharing” and continued with “knowledge of a UID does not enable anyone to access private user information without explicit user consent.”

But if it’s still against the privacy policy, doesn’t it make them wrong regardless?