"... Did Facebook ask me if I would be happy if they did this kind of data-mining on my status updates? ..." Good question. You may not have realised you gave

"... Did Facebook ask me if I would be happy if they did this kind of data-mining on my status updates? ..." Good question. You may not have realised you gave Fb the rights to "infer" from their server logs & interactions when you created your account. However there is a solution. Get back your right to say who can peek into your server logs by owning your own servers again. Listen to Eben Moglen and his "Freedom in the Cloud" talk to understand how ~ http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338 http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338