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When I worked at The Washington Post we were among the first group of companies to integrate the then new Social Graph. I immediately deleted my Facebook accoun
by leetrout 14y ago
When I worked at The Washington Post we were among the first group of companies to integrate the then new Social Graph. I immediately deleted my Facebook account.
I was appalled when I saw that we could identify, not only visitor's names, but their friends, access public photos, and all of their profile information. All of this without any action on the user's part and before there were any privacy controls.
This is just the next logical step-federating data collection across multiple sites, not just FB.
I'm obviously in the minority since FB has grown tremendously in the past 2 years but I've not looked back. I dread the forthcoming lack of privacy and anonymity our world is heading toward.
- dtsingletary 14y agoWhile you can see this data from Facebook--and yes, that's jarring-- what you're allowed to do with it is something different. You can't sell it, you can't sell it to an ad network/exchange, you can't retain it after the user revokes permission; you can't even sell derivatives of the data. Facebook Connect is the most benign of these sorts of things there are-- it's access to data, and the implementors of its widgets and API-- have an onus to protect it. Now, of course, there's plenty of bad actors out there, and I'm sure it's sold and exchanged, but technically and legally speaking, you're forbidden from doing so.