While some parts of Facebook's privacy policy will change thanks to the Canadian government, some of these changes will take up to a year. So take a few minutes to learn what information someone is learning about you and your friends when you take a silly little quiz to figure out what flavor cupcake or breed of cat you are.
Of course, the ironic part is that you'll have to install the ACLU's Facebook quiz application.
What Do Quizzes Really Know About You? [Facebook] (Thanks, Craig!)
]]>Note, though, when you add an app, you give them permission to see your full profile (except for contact info). That's just how Platform is. My policy... check the app details page. If the app looks sketchy (developer not established, bad reviews, lacking privacy policy, etc...), don't add it.
]]>@AppleAlex: I'm not speaking for all. I'm speaking for the majority, whom are honest people.
]]>"Adverts shown by third party applications
Facebook does not give third party applications or advertising networks the right to use your name or picture in adverts. If this is allowed in the future, this setting will govern the usage of your information."
If this is allowed in the future?! Oh, and the default was to friends, not to 'no one' which is what I changed it to.
]]>@tawni: Yes, there is one sure-fire way of ensuring that you don't fall victim to these tactics - stay off of Facebook!
I wonder about people that will voluntarily publish every little tedious detail about themselves and their families on a social networking site and then whine that someone on Internet has their information.
]]>Not necessarily true. Apps could be written with placeholders that get replaced with real data when Facebook is serving the app's page to the user. I'm guessing that is not the case though; app developers probably can capture and keep your personal data.
]]>I do like some of the quizzes where you don't have to install anything, just copy and paste.
]]>I have a FB profile... Can I post a link to this on it??? I'm seriously asking here...
]]>Again this is why I stay off of facebook. One less thing that can track down all my information as if there are not enough privacy violations online and off already.
]]>Unless you really know how to set the privacy setting. That, is really scary.
]]>I'm familiar with applications that use data from friends of the application user (i.e. a quiz that asks you which of your friends was born in Mobile, Alabama - that info would come from the friend's profile). What I'm curious about is whether app developers are able to get that information OUT of Facebook.
]]>Why would you want to exclude yourself from searches?
]]>Hey Laura,
I appreciate you calling out the quiz "developers" (If you can even call them that) on the HUGE amounts of data they harvest (If you look on the facebook developer forum, in the marketplace, you will see people actually attempting to sell user data), i have to, again, point out that we are not all like that.
For instance, a few applications i have done work for, and ALL of my own rely on only one piece of "user data", and it's their user id. You know, that really long number that can go up to 13 digits long? Thats it, thats all. Alot of apps record that number in the database, as thats the only real way to authenticate a user to an account.
]]>"Just think about love and companionship and everything's fine!!"
]]>It's eye-opening ... especially since their quiz uses these same exploits to show you the information a Facebook application can acquire, without you or your friends even knowing it. It's ironic and paradoxical of them to use a Facebook application to do this, but the upshot is that only by using a Facebook application, can they demonstrate to you, conclusively, how invasive they really are.
]]>My bro0ther was hevily into myspace and quit over privacy concerns, I try to show him that he can lock it down but he isn't interested.
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