Your Private Information - How would you feel? (unemployment, interview, border)
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The only way they can mine your address book is if you provide your password (which I refused to do) to allow them to search for contacts listed in your address book. I do need to recheck my privacy settings to see what information is open for them to share but at least I wasn't dumb enough to give them my email password.
Facebook repeatedly offers me "suggestions" of contacts I "might like". All of them are people with whom, at some time in the past, I had an email correspondence. In some cases, I cannot recall ever having an email with them, but I recognize their names, they are probably on the FaceBook friends list of the people that are being suggested. There are several degrees of separation operating here, and I am disconcerted by this fact. I suspect it might be that those people have either opened or failed to secure their FaceBook account, so FaceBook is crawling through their address book or mailbox, finding me, and notifying me that these are people I might like to add.
I just today got this message from my cousin: "Facebook has a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Allow." If this concerns you, go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization - Edit Settings, and uncheck "Allow"."
Facebook repeatedly offers me "suggestions" of contacts I "might like". All of them are people with whom, at some time in the past, I had an email correspondence. In some cases, I cannot recall ever having an email with them, but I recognize their names, they are probably on the FaceBook friends list of the people that are being suggested. There are several degrees of separation operating here, and I am disconcerted by this fact. I suspect it might be that those people have either opened or failed to secure their FaceBook account, so FaceBook is crawling through their address book or mailbox, finding me, and notifying me that these are people I might like to add.
I just today got this message from my cousin: "Facebook has a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Allow." If this concerns you, go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization - Edit Settings, and uncheck "Allow"."
I got that same message. It only refers to certain "partner" sites that I'm not even a member of.
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Facebook repeatedly offers me "suggestions" of contacts I "might like". All of them are people with whom, at some time in the past, I had an email correspondence. In some cases, I cannot recall ever having an email with them, but I recognize their names, they are probably on the FaceBook friends list of the people that are being suggested. There are several degrees of separation operating here, and I am disconcerted by this fact. I suspect it might be that those people have either opened or failed to secure their FaceBook account, so FaceBook is crawling through their address book or mailbox, finding me, and notifying me that these are people I might like to add.
I just today got this message from my cousin: "Facebook has a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" that shares data with non-facebook websites and it is automatically set to "Allow." If this concerns you, go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization - Edit Settings, and uncheck "Allow"."
I don't like that "instant Personalization" stuff so I need to check my settings. As far as FB suggesting "friends" that you know, this is likely due to the fact that these individuals may have given FB access to their email address book (with your contact info included) or they may have done a FB search specifically for you. I rarely use FB and considering canceling my account with them. The people who are my FB friends are folks I hardly ever communicate with. Waste of time IMO.
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I got that same message. It only refers to certain "partner" sites that I'm not even a member of.
It is still wrong of them to default to sharing your information with other companies especially if you are unaware of this. The default should be that you would have to opt in to this versus the onus of having to opt out.
Washington (CNN) -- Four Democratic senators called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday to reconsider the recent changes in its privacy settings and asked the Federal Trade Commission to streamline guidelines regarding privacy on all social networks.
Why does it seem so interesting to me that the only Senators who are concerned about our privacy are Democrats? Is there a political message there, that we should all be paying attention to?
I would say there is a major message here. Apparently the Democrats are interested in personal privacy and the Republicans in whatever might allow businesses to be more profitable by being more invasive of our individual privacy. Kind of opposite of what they claim.
I have been wondering where some of the unsolicited advertising I get in the mail found out where I live. I ignore the stuff but still have to carry it out to the recycle bin.
Facebook users who choose not to link their user accounts to Facebook's public Pages are ending up with blank profiles containing no information at all. If you haven't experienced this problem, it's probably thanks to the somewhat high-pressure tactics Facebook is using to get you to accept these changes. ...
However, the high-pressure tactics being used to get people to link to Facebook Pages are a good example of how Facebook is coyly forcing people to go public with their previously more private, personal data. Although the pop-up box quietly warns "Remember, your Pages are public," few Facebook users will likely take note of that text. (After all, if thousands of people managed to confuse this blog with Facebook, we doubt they can grasp the finer points of data privacy.)
So what should your takeaway be from all this mess? Look before you link.
In fact, it may be best if you just assume that everything on Facebook will be public from now on and act accordingly.
Privacy be damned! If they're going to sell my private information, I want a piece of the action. I don't want to give it away anymore.
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