Re: Facebook defaults question

[Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek () irongeek com>]

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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