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I don't use Facebook, but could one build a service that automatically sets Facebook's privacy settings to sensible options? A large part of the problem is that
by foxylad 9y ago
I don't use Facebook, but could one build a service that automatically sets Facebook's privacy settings to sensible options? A large part of the problem is that changing these through the web site is painful in the extreme.
I suppose I'm asking if their API provides read/write access to privacy settings. If so, there's a big opportunity here.
More generally, I'd like to see governments mandate that all FB user's privacy settings be reset to the max, and force Facebook to realistically inform users who want to loosen them about why they might want to do so.
- kbsletten 9y agoI imagine they have documentation, but I also can't see a privacy permission ending well. How easy would it be to convince somebody to allow an app to turn off privacy entirely?
- theseatoms 9y agoPart of the problem is how often they change the privacy model, from what I gather. So the API and/or any integrations would have to support those recurring changes. Not a frequent user of FB, though I still have a profile.
- cjhopman 9y agoDo you consider your privacy settings your personal information? Do you believe companies should just be exposing that kind of information to random other companies through an api?
- pimmen 9y agoYou could use the OAuth authentication API and let the user consciously giving user settings access to the service. As long as the service doesn't do anything with that data the agreement with the user doesn't permit, and the data is deleted upon the user's request, the service is GDPR compliant.
- ahartmetz 9y agoImpossible for technical reasons, like data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook proper. /s
- ahartmetz 9y agoI'd expect that kind of answer from Facebook, in some sunny fake-sincere wording. I mean - they shadow-profile you for security reasons!