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> It's entirely within your control to limit the information you give them, carefully select privacy settings Except Facebook unilaterally changes its guarant
by neilk 15y ago
> It's entirely within your control to limit the information you give them, carefully select privacy settings
Except Facebook unilaterally changes its guarantees about privacy, year after year, always in its own favor.
This takes you up to 2010:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline
In 2011 and 2012, they further codified how your private information is also subject to what your friends do. Some of this is common sense, some not so much.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/22/technology/facebook-privacy-changes/index.htm http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/22/technology/facebook-privacy-...
I'm not saying Facebook is evil, exactly... no more than a parasite is. ;) Their business model doesn't align them with their users' needs for privacy.
- woobar 15y agoActually, 'information you give them' is always within your control.
- knewter 15y agoUnless it's 'zero becaue i don't have an account,' I disagree. I don't know until I land on a site whether they're using fb connect.
- woobar 15y agoIt's still within your control to block/not use FB connect even when you have an account.
- kaybe 15y agoBlock it, and use another browser for fb and fb only. For very-light users like me (as in, keep a nearly empty profile for the people that use it as default communication) it's not even inconvenient.