FQL:privacy

Query this table to return a user's privacy setting for a given object_id.

Columns

Highlighted rows are indexable / searchable and one is usually required in the WHERE portion of the query.

Name	Type	Description
object_id	string	The ID of an object on Facebook. This can be a video, note, link, photo, or photo album.
id	string	The object ID (this is an alias for the "object_id" column).
value	string	The privacy value for the object, one of EVERYONE, CUSTOM, ALL_FRIENDS, NETWORKS_FRIENDS, FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS.
description	string	A description of the privacy settings. For CUSTOM settings, it can contain names of users, networks, and friend lists.
allow	string	The IDs of the specific users or friend lists that can see the object (as a comma-separated string).
deny	string	The IDs of the specific users or friend lists that cannot see the object (as a comma-separated string).
owner_id	int	The ID of the user who owns the object.
networks	int	The ID of the network that can see the object, or 1 for all of the user's networks.
friends	string	Which users can see the object. Can be one of EVERYONE, NETWORKS_FRIENDS, FRIENDS_OF_FRIENDS, ALL_FRIENDS, SOME_FRIENDS, SELF, or NO_FRIENDS.

Notes/Bugs/Gotchas

from a posting on the official docs (2011-02-16):

Hi. I'm currently querying this table to retrieve the privacy settings for a photo album. According to the documentation, when a user specifies "CUSTOM" privacy settings, and makes an album visible to specific friends (e.g. visible only to "Alice" and "Bob"), the "allow" field in the privacy table should contain Alice's and Bob's IDs separated by a comma. However, I found that it only contains a very large number (something like: 10150094209557763) that has nothing to do with Alice's and Bob's IDs. Any ideas about this?