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Asked: 2026-06-11T11:53:17+00:00

There are two kinds of privacy. 1. Default privacy setting 2. Per-app privacy. Set

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There are two kinds of privacy.

1. Default privacy setting
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2. Per-app privacy. Set when user doing authentication or modify it at privacy setting page
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According to https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/privacy_setting/, we could get the default privacy by FQL.

In this post https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/543/ said that users could modify per-app privacy for every apps in “Posts on your behalf: Who can see posts this app makes for you on your Facebook timeline?”

And https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/586/ said that we could retrieve app specific privacy settings for users.
“Via the privacy_setting table table, apps can retrieve the privacy settings that a user has set for the app.”

But it did say how to retrieve privacy settings for a app rather than default privacy setting.

Before last year, maybe following discusses work correctly. But now I think that they were outdated:

Currently, there are not only default privacy setting but also per-app privacy setting that user could control them.

If we use

SELECT name, value, description, allow, deny, networks, friends
FROM privacy_setting
WHERE name = 'default_stream_privacy'

to retrieve privacy, the result is the same with 1. Default privacy setting.

And my question is, how to get the setting value of 2. Per-app privacy?

In FQL query above, is there any keyword could be put in name column rather than ‘default_stream_privacy’?

It will influence the privacy of all new status/album/photo/video posts that were posted by app with API key. And I need to show privacy selections those are stricter than app privacy setting in customized UI.

Thanks for replying in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The default_stream_privacy setting your app retrieves is the App-specific privacy setting – you can verify this in a few seconds by using Graph API Explorer tool, checking that value in the FQL table, modifying your privacy settings for that app in your privacy settings and checking again.

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