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Facebook pre-approves other websites to access your personal info
If you care who uses your Facebook data, you should get ready to change your privacy settings, yet again. Facebook Connect, which delivers your personal data to other sites that you choose, is about to start delivering it to sites that Facebook has pre-approved, too. That basically makes Facebook Connect an opt-out instead of an opt-in feature, and compromising your privacy will be the default setting.Which sites are on the pre-approved list to get your data? We don't know yet, because Facebook hasn't actually released a list. All we can tell from the available information is that you might show up at a third-party website and be surprised that it already has access to information like your name, birthday, or friends list.
Here's the exact language Facebook has used to explain the new policy (the bold bits are my highlights):
"Protect your privacy?" Facebook, please! Protecting our privacy would mean letting us opt-in whenever you decide you want to change the way you use our personal info. As part of the site's open governance policy, the new privacy changes are available to review and comment on right now. Read them, form your own opinion, and let Facebook know what you think!Pre-Approved Third-Party Websites and Applications. In order to provide you with useful social experiences off of Facebook, we occasionally need to provide General Information about you to pre-approved third party websites and applications that use Platform at the time you visit them (if you are still logged in to Facebook). Similarly, when one of your friends visits a pre-approved website or application, it will receive General Information about you so you and your friend can be connected on that website as well (if you also have an account with that website). In these cases we require these websites and applications to go through an approval process, and to enter into separate agreements designed to protect your privacy.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
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Subscribe to commentsblitzkriegMar 29th 2010 9:15AM
Hey Zuckerberg, (insert profanity here). Just another reason why I should delete my FB account once and for all.
michas_piMar 30th 2010 2:59AM
So how much longer will you put up with this Web 2.0 horseshit?
Do what I did a long while ago and delete your social networking profiles.
csb1227Mar 29th 2010 10:35AM
Looks like it's already changed. I can't find the quoted paragraph in the post on FB. >750 comments. All negative from what I can tell. Guess they got the message.
jokermatt999Mar 29th 2010 10:47AM
At this point, you should realize that Facebook cares nothing for your privacy at all. They barely even pay lip service to it. Instead of complaining about their latest "fuck you" to people who don't want them selling their data to advertisers everywhere, take the moral high ground and *stop using Facebook.* It might be difficult, but with their ridiculous track record of abusing privacy, it has to take an awful lot of cognitive dissonance to claim you really care about privacy and continue to give your data to Facebook.
Cold EmbraceMar 29th 2010 11:09AM
Would Someone mind telling me how I can "Delete" my facebook account Deactivating it would be pointless
melos dMar 29th 2010 5:34PM
http://www.wikihow.com/Permanently-Delete-a-Facebook-Account
gidleysMar 29th 2010 12:55PM
It gets worse:
"In the future, all notifications of proposed changes will come through the Facebook Site Governance Page. To receive future updates to Facebook's site governance documents, become a fan of the Page."
So you won't even hear about future facerapes unless you become a fan of the page.
J
mereMar 29th 2010 2:28PM
deleting all personal info from kine now. locking it down & i'm not adding new content.
it will be used as a promotional tool for my events from now on.
get richer on your own off of your on metadata
ScraynMar 29th 2010 5:06PM
Thanks for the heads up, Jay.
I love my friends, but they shouldn't be able to choose where my data goes for me.
Also, it sounds like FB is only looking at the Site Governance page for comments. If you want to leave a comment (which is under 150 at the time of this comment), head here: http://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance
ScraynMar 29th 2010 5:11PM
Almost forgot: You need to leave the comment in the appropriate section of the Proposed Privacy Policy. Click on the Documents tab and under the Privacy Policy is a link which says, "Comment Here". The proposed changes are in section 4, "Sharing Information on Facebook".