The Rewards and Risks of Facebook Developer Access to User Phone Numbers and Addresses

The Rewards and Risks of Facebook Developer Access to User Phone Numbers and Addresses

(...) "Meanwhile, the change could prompt unscrupulous developers to build apps that intentionally ask for a lot of permissions in order to mask that they are pulling the contact information from unsuspecting users." (...)

Related information from 'Facecrooks':

http://facecrooks.com/blog/internet-safety-a-privacy/item/989-facebook-grants-application-developers-access-to-user-contact-information

More:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_now_shares_phone_number_address_with_thir.php

Details from Facebook's own Developer Blog:

http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/446?ref=mf

(including coding information)