Your Rights Online: Facebook Sharing Too Much Personal Data With Application Developers
An anonymous reader writes "Remember the Facebook News Feed privacy uproar? What about the Beacon scandal from late last year? Privacy activists are rallying around yet another major issue at Facebook, in which the company is secretly sharing user data with third parties. Researchers from the University of Virginia recently announced that in a study of the top 150 Facebook applications, more than 90% were given access to information that was not needed to function correctly. That Scrabble or Superpoke application you really like? Its developers get access to your religion, sexuality and home town. Facebook's position was summed up by Georgetown Law Professor Dan Solove, 'They seem to be going on the assumption that if someone uses Facebook, they really have no privacy concerns.' Do Facebook users deserve privacy? "
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/02/07/1646250.shtml
Those of you who remember, I posted a blog and bulletin about this not long ago. Hell if I remember correct I told all of you twice before that!
About facebook.....
I've had an account on there for a while.... I truly rarely ever get on it. More and more I wonder about the stuff that site is allowing.
It worries me..... I go on there and I see all these programs people send me to try out and put on my page. Now I know programs are good for us and can also be used for bad.
To me for people I don't know who they are or let alone know anything about them in the first place to know as little about me as possible.
That site just seems to want access to who I am and all sorts of bs.... more than anything with the programs people create and want me to install.
I saw a friend of mine on there she had her xbox live gamer score thing like I do on here. But unlike on here... facebook doesn't allow you to post html code like you do with myspace. So I can't display my gamer score unless I give access to some punk I know nothing about except he created the program and it will only allow me to use it if I accept the fact that he can be allowed access to my profile and maybe even my computer...
I don't think so... I like the idea it allows people to create programs but I don't think you should give it access to knowledge about you and so on. Doesn't anyone know what could happen? You could get spyware a virus even and remote access to your pc this way.
To me you shouldn't have to give up access to someone else.
For that reason alone I'm paranoid about the site and all it's programs designed for us to use on there.
So let me ask those of you who use that site or know a thing or two of what I'm speaking of..... What do you think? Do you think I'm being to overprotective? Am I overlooking something on the matter at hand? Or perhaps I'm thinking to much into this subject?
Would love to know your thoughts and ideas on this bulletin post of mine.
