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19 Jan 2011, 01:09 AM | #1 |
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FaceBook Gives Devs access to address, phone # etc
According to this story in the Guardian, Facebook has shown developers how to access information given by users including home address and phone number.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...me-address-api Facebook assures us that this is merely to help developers service clients better and offers no privacy risk. You can control some of this through privacy settings, as just deleting current data may not be enough. Or you can just delete your account. http://www.facebook.com/help/contact...delete_account |
19 Jan 2011, 01:41 AM | #2 |
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From what I read yesterday, the sharing of private information (email address etc) will only happen if users explicitly enable this. It is not enabled by default.
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19 Jan 2011, 04:07 AM | #3 |
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Just came across this article while surfing the Internet this afternoon, Tuesday, January 18th, at 2:04pm EST
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-now?GT1=43001 Thought I would share it with everyone David |
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Interesting reading. I'm not to worried about this at any rate. My address and phone numbers are not, and will never be entered in Facebook.
This Facebook quote in the Facebook: Now sharing your home address with developers | Technology | guardian.co.uk is a bit off the mark, actually I find it to be quite false. Emphasis mine Quote:
Example of such an URL: Code:
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs034.snc6/166456_170179873026893_removed_372552_2448170_n.jpg I tested this out with two photos I added to my my profile. I set both to Me Only. Both pictures are accessible. This mean I do not have absolute control. In fact I have since deleted those to photos and both are still available at the links I saved. Last edited by chrisretusn : 20 Jan 2011 at 10:52 AM. |
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28 Jan 2011, 04:07 AM | #6 |
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How many times more I have to say it, I don't care, but Facebool is evil. It is the online version of Brave New World and 1984 at the same time: people overwhelmed with (pointless) data, meanwhile throwing overboard their own privacy and not even caring when they know just as well that people are having access to their data.
And MySpace isn't much better... I still have to receive a somewhat useful answer to the question what Facebook has to offer that the average pub (for friends in your home area) or email or Skype (for distant friends) does not offer. So far not a single answer to that question could convince me. |
28 Jan 2011, 07:56 AM | #7 |
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But they will enable it if the application asks for it as a requirement during installation (just like most people gives full administrative control of their PC to any application that requires it during installation).
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For the record, Facebook will be introducing additional safeguards (very soon) http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130 I cancelled my own Facebook account (by the way) over a year ago. |
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I never had one (well, except for one fake account I used to access it once, and since then I get some message to "Dear Doris" every once in a while in the spamgourmet address I put there).). |
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16 Mar 2011, 08:37 AM | #10 |
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I canceled out my Facebook account after having it opened for a couple of months last year primarily because of the privacy issue and because people (men) I didn't even know wanted to be friends. Even after I went through all of the profile pages to close the loopholes I felt uneasy. So I closed the account, though Facebook calls it "deactivating" the account in case I want to re-open it. Yeah, right.
If it's just deactivated, that means they have my profile copy stored in some server somewhere, doesn't it? Great... Last edited by dragon1 : 16 Mar 2011 at 08:39 AM. Reason: add on |
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dragon1,
Please go here: How do I permanently delete my account? - Facebook Help Center | Facebook You will have to reactive your account first, logging in will do that. Then follow the procedure in the above link. I have done this with my youngest daughter and a friend or two, after about 15 days the account is deleted. I have verified that none of the accounts I have deleted are no longer available. |
17 Mar 2011, 02:34 AM | #12 |
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Thanks for the tip, chrisretusn. I'll do as suggested.
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It's rather simple actually
Anything and everything you put out onto the net is there, forever. It's archived, data mined, stored, sold, shared, etc. etc. etc.
So simple rule, never put anything out on the net that you want to keep private, that is unless you manage your own server and lock it down tight. |
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Also, please see this topic ; one of the reasons why I am afraid that signing in to LuxSci would also sign me in to Safe Mail (I ordered the LuxSci account giving a Safe Mail address as correspondance address) when signing in to LuxSci from a public PC, is that Facebook can import contacts from your address book in your mailbox. How does Facebook do that without signing in to your webmail account in order to access your address book? In theory the link between Safe Mail and LuxSci ends with the fact that I used the Safe Mail address to sign up with. But when I read Facebook can somehow manage to get into your account and copy the email addresses from your address book, I do feel a bit confused. As for FB I stick to my earlier statements. It is a waste of potential. It would be so handy to exchange real info on for example travel arrangements, whom to contact to request an entry visa, which employers recruit in which cities, .... But to find that useful info amongst the pointless posts, is looking for a tiny needle in a huge haystick. Add the policies of Facebook to that, and it's reason enough for me to stay away from it. People who really want to make new friends (and stay in touch with old friends) and socialise for real, should get Couchsurfing or HospitalityClub instead of Facebook. And those sites organise plenty of real-life (offline) meetings too. A lot more efficient and a lot more effective for the purpose of socialising than any of those profile services. |
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