

Facebook RFP window with new feature  (Source: The Atlantic)
Users fear rogue apps will steal their personal informaiton








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RE: Why you can't trust FB with naked pictures
By Solandri on 1/17/2011 12:36:16 PM , Rating: 2
I don't really see that as FB acting to protect your privacy. I see it as FB acting to protect their business.

What are app companies going to do with your private info? Use it for marketing.
What does Facebook do with your private info? Use it for marketing.

Either way, your private info is screwed; it's just a question of who is doing the screwing. FB and the app companies are competitors here (on an uneven playing field, but still competitors). "Protecting" their users' privacy is a self-serving move which they're spinning as doing for the users' sake.

RE: Why you can't trust FB with naked pictures
By Suntan on 1/17/2011 3:03:26 PM , Rating: 3
Either way, your private info is screwed

Its not "private" information if you type it into facebook.

Honestly though, why does anyone have a compelling need to put their phone number or address on facebook? If you don't have my phone number already, there's probably a reason for that.


By Iaiken on 1/17/2011 4:11:11 PM , Rating: 1


Hell, this is a lesson most people should have learned in grade school. If you don't want Zucky to give some psycho stalker your home phone number, don't tell Zucky in the first place.

Companies change their privacy policies all the time and you can suddenly find that everyone knows about your 80+ hours/week Warcraft playtimes because blizzard linked your real ID to your FB account. Didn't get that job interview because the potential employer was concerned about you spending more time on warcraft than on work, too bad, Blizzard and FB needed the multilevel marketing more than you needed that job. :P


By The Raven on 1/18/2011 11:02:40 AM , Rating: 2
I didn't say it was a move to protect privacy. FB would be non-existant if people didn't WANT publicity. Why should anyone see them as a company concerned with privacy in the first place? Yes they want to make it secure so that people will trust them with their info, but that is the person's choice. I mean for someone out there (certainly not me ;-) sharing your email and phone number via FB apps might be valuable. I am just saying that it is nice to have that option if you are a FB user. For those people who want that feature, hearing that they can't use it is like the average user hearing that they can't use FB at all. If you want it, you want it. And FB's job is to give users what they want. What they want is publicity. The uses also want security, and they will always have that option if they choose not to compromise that on their own.


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