Think you successfully stayed anonymous on Facebook? Think again.

[gorcorps]

Really? D:

Uh, unless something changed in the last hour or so he's full of shit. App permissions are still there every time you hit the update button.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Our government only regulates consumers, not companies. Even more so since FB just hands them over any info they want.

 

[marvdmartian]

So I can get a better FICO score by coming up with 100 fake Facebook profiles, and making them all my friend?? 😎

 

[Jeff7]

Haven't you seen those Facebook "trivia" apps asking you to answer questions about your friends? Yeah...I never accept those, but third parties are still piecing-together a picture of my personal life because everyone else on Facebook is gullible and STUPID to know better.

Oh well, there's simply no privacy on the Internet now...so I don't fool myself into thinking there is.

😀
"Please fill out this marketing survey for us! We'd like to get a feel for what our products think of each other."

Our government only regulates consumers, not companies. Even more so since FB just hands them over any info they want.

Even more so since the richest companies can simply buy the government that they want.

 

[Doppel]

I dropped FB years ago. Free services mean you're the product. If I'm going to sell myself I want something for it. I use Gmail. I know they rape my privacy, but I like the email service. I didn't feel I was getting my bang for butt-bang with FB, so I got rid of it.

 

[ch33zw1z]

This snafu won’t come as a surprise to researchers who brought up Facebook’s shadow profiles long before this most recent breach. In 2011, an Irish advocacy group filed a complaint against Facebook for collecting information like email addresses, phone numbers, work details, and other data to create shadow profiles for people who don’t use the service. Since it actually takes moral fortitude to resist the social pull of Facebook, this is a slap in the face for people who make a point to stay off the network: The group claimed that Facebook still has profiles for non-Facebookers anyway.

Oh, how nice. To all those saying "you signed up, it's not private", please try to explain how it is ok to create shadow profiles for non-subscribers.

fuck FB, fuck social networking altogether.

 

[ch33zw1z]

I don't use my real name or post my phone number. I tell people what name to search for to add me, or vice versa.

It doesn't matter:

Facebook recently announced that it fixed a bug that inadvertently revealed this hidden contact information for six million users. Their mea culpa was not particularly well-received, since this security breach revealed that the social network had been collecting this data on all of its users and compiling it into shadow profiles for years. Some people who use Facebook’s Download Your Information (DYI) tool could see the dossiers Facebook had been collecting as well as information their friends put up themselves. So, if I downloaded my information and was affected by the bug, I’d see some of the email addresses and phone numbers of my friends who did not make that information public.

If your real name and # are in someone's phone who allows the DYI, FB is building a shadow profile on you anyways.

 

[balloonshark]

Uh, unless something changed in the last hour or so he's full of shit. App permissions are still there every time you hit the update button.

I went to Play using my computer and I do not see any permissions listed.

I should have added that you should see the permissions when installing the app with a mobile device.

 

[ProchargeMe]

I'm sure they'll still hang onto everything you had stored there.

That's completely okay, I wasn't dumb enough to post personal info to a social media site :thumbup:

 

[Alevian]

facebook unlike myspace and twitter IMO is just too personal which is why I never got involved with it in the first place