After holding off a long time, and only succumbing last November, I finally signed up to Facebook.
And earlier this week (or end of last week), they rolled out a bunch of changes that really fucked things up for everyone’s privacy. The changes they made were designed to help you “connect” to everything and everyone you like. A new API was rolled out that allowed websites to add code that would link users’ Facebook accounts to the site — in fact some sites now allow you to log in to their site with your Facebook credentials. Yeah, that’s not likely to cause any security issues, huh?
A lot of people have been posting about these, but a few links (below) really stand out for me.
Facebook Timeline of privacy settings
A security hole that lets people view their friends’ live chats
Some stuff you need to know about FB with its current settings
Websites have been adding apps without your authorisation. This bug has apparently been fixed, but only for sites you visit from now on. It’ll still pay to check your app list for anything that’s been added for you in the last few days.
I mean, this is some seriously shocking stuff. And these are all rational posts — I’m sure there are plenty comparing this to the End Times(tm) as well. On top of all this is Facebook’s lawsuit against a guy who harvested a bunch of publicly available data from FB accounts just to show how much FB shared. So they sued him. I would almost say it’s hypocritical, but I think from their point of view, he should be paying them money to get to your info. Which is kind of business, but they’re going about it all wrong in my opinion. They’re being cunts about it, and that’s just impolite.
So in light of all the above, and the fact that Facebook are doing their darndest to monetise you and your private info, they can:
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