Facebook is still creepy
Dec. 29th, 2005 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jgraftonTo anyone with a facebook account, I recommend you do the following:
a) Read the privacy policy. Note key sections such as the following:
"Facebook also collects information about you from other sources, such as newspapers and instant messaging services. This information is gathered regardless of your use of the Web Site."
b) If you do nothing else, click on the link in the last paragraph of the "Sharing Your Information with Third Parties" section - this will [theoretically] tell facebook not to sell your information to third parties (if you can trust them).
c) And personally, do not fill out the "How do you know this friend?" data for me. I will just reject it. I don't trust facebook and what they're doing with this data; I've only got an account to keep in touch with people.
Perhaps I've been wearing my tin-foil hat too much of late; perhaps not.
a) Read the privacy policy. Note key sections such as the following:
"Facebook also collects information about you from other sources, such as newspapers and instant messaging services. This information is gathered regardless of your use of the Web Site."
b) If you do nothing else, click on the link in the last paragraph of the "Sharing Your Information with Third Parties" section - this will [theoretically] tell facebook not to sell your information to third parties (if you can trust them).
c) And personally, do not fill out the "How do you know this friend?" data for me. I will just reject it. I don't trust facebook and what they're doing with this data; I've only got an account to keep in touch with people.
Perhaps I've been wearing my tin-foil hat too much of late; perhaps not.
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Date: 2005-12-29 07:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-12-29 07:58 pm (UTC)The selling to third-parties thing is pretty standard, and I'm sure almost every online service you have signed up for has the exact same clause, if not more vague. They write these things because they have to, not because they intend to. There was probably some guy when they were setting this up, who was more legally inclined, who said "Hey kids, we need a privacy policy, and you have to cover these things."
Probably what facebook is doing with the data is just statistical foo. Or else, people wanted to know. What do you think they would do with it?
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