Chapter 3. Let Me In!
When exploring the Graph in the previous chapter, we came across a few points where our access was blocked. Our Facebook apps need to be able to deal with this gracefully, by either avoiding such points or asking for access.
In this chapter we'll learn about:
- Security: How Facebook blocks people and apps from seeing things they shouldn't
- Permissions: How users decide what information other people and apps are allowed to see, and how your application can request to see more
- Authentication: How your application can prove that it's trusted to see all that information
So let's get on with it...
What can you see?
Let's find out what we can see on other people's Facebook accounts under different circumstances.
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