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Re: Facebook defaults question
From: Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek () irongeek com>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:26:16 -0400
Just generated another account. here are the default app settings: Bio My videos Birthday My links Family and relationships My notes Interested in and looking for Photos and videos I'm tagged in Religious and political views Hometown My website Current city If I'm online Education and work My status updates Activities, interests, things I like My photos Places I check in to Only "Interested in and looking for" and "Religious and political views" are off by default. http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2010/11/facebook-punishes-app-developers-found-selling-user-data.ars http://www.pcworld.com/article/209444/surprise_your_facebook_data_is_for_sale.html Looks like there is plenty of apps doing it. Not that I care much, I ensure by privacy by being boring. Guess they could get my email address elsewhere and do better targeted spam. Got a good business model for you: Write the next Farm-vile (not an sp), scrap all data you can from all the people you can (including their friends list), wait 5 to 20 years for one to got for political office, sell juicy stuff to reporters. Adrian On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek () irongeek com>wrote:
Some of my "friends" have been giving me shit recently because I've gone though and disconnected from about 3/4 of the people I had added over the years. People get their panties in a wad because you won't add them back, even though they never contacted you with Facebook and you only superficially know each other. I've never put much of anything too private about myself, it's all crud you could find out via a google/whois search, but with changing privacy rules I decided to cut things back. That, and reading all the crap academics post on preventing Sybil attacks based on social networks (guess they never heard of Robin Sage, and think people are really selective) and bashing it made be want to put my "money where my mouth is." End of digression/background. I took the time to look at the privacy settings, and a few clicks in I found this: "Control what information is available to applications and websites when your friends use them." The default seemed to be pretty much all things shared, does this mean apps can just scrap all this information and store it if they like if you have one dumb ass friend who adds everything Kevin Johnson on Tom Eston sends them? Does not seem to be a good default. Thanks, Adrian
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