Facebook's Plan To Automatically Share Your Data 142
Giosuele sends in this excerpt from TechCrunch:
"In anticipation of a slew of new features that will be launching at f8, today Facebook announced that it was once again making changes to its privacy policy. One of the biggest changes that Facebook is making involves applications and third-party websites. We've been hearing whispers from multiple sources about these changes, and the announcement all but confirms what Facebook is planning to do. In short, it sounds like Facebook is going to be automatically opting users into a reduced form of Facebook Connect on certain third party sites — a bold change that may well unnerve users, at least at first."
Re:Only a fool would publish personal info (Score:1, Informative)
Certain data like name, address, and date of birth are often public records that can be mined by anyone who's willing to look for it. Check the site http://www.lookupanyone.com/ for instance, you just might find yourself and your family members and friends in there (I actually found that site by googling my full name). They say they use sources like "courthouses, county and other government offices". Apparently the government's privacy policy is a lot worse than that of Facebook.
Re:Tracking and XSS for the masses (Score:5, Informative)
Yup, we do.
Here's one from last year.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10268282-38.html [cnet.com]