Facebook will soon share users’ phone numbers and addresses with 3rd parties

[shayd]

If the actuality of their data farming and exploitation was ever properly exposed, they'd be sitting in front of Congressional Committees and Federal Judges from here to eternity.

That being said.

They actually tel you all the shit they are going to do in the sign up process.

Only no one reads it because it's pages of legal gibberish..

But, you want to update the world every half an hour with the minutiae of your dull suburban breeder life ......... then you get what you signed up for.

Not with Connect they didn't. That's actually what precipitated the whole fiasco. They claimed for months prior to launch that it wouldn't change the privacy policy, and when they were found out, they had to go into save-face mode.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

Not with Connect they didn't. That's actually what precipitated the whole fiasco. They claimed for months prior to launch that it wouldn't change the privacy policy, and when they were found out, they had to go into save-face mode.

Orly ... interesting.

Oddly, given that I happily exploit FB for professional purposes, I've never actually toothcombed the terms and conditions.

Might have to now, just for my own amusement: but only if I can bill it out!

 

[larss]

You cant even save photographs in the new format, how effin ridiculous is that?

Press F5 (refresh) when you have a picture loaded - it reloads the page in the original picture viewing format allowing you to save the picture as usual.

NO. why would anyone put their phone number or address on facebook anyway? You're sharing that info with facebook (again, why?), why would anyone expect that a for-profit business wouldn't use any and all resources cultivated in the course of doing business to....make more profit by selling their data?

pfffft. dumb ass if facebook has ANYTHING important to you in the first place.

You are not sharing that information with facebook, and facebook has no legal right to sharing that information with anybody other than those people that you have said can have the information via their privacy settings. In the UK, the information is protected by the data protection act, and CANNOT under any circumstances be sold or given out unless to a law enforcement agency. If the information was released by facebook then they would be in breech of this law.

Having said that, I would still not put my address on there.

 

[larss]

Just a quick addition to the above - these are the facebook terms of use http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

See specifically point 2.

You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings.

 

[TheOrangeCat]

In the UK, the information is protected by the data protection act, and CANNOT under any circumstances be sold or given out unless to a law enforcement agency. If the information was released by facebook then they would be in breech of this law.

Unless of course, you voluntarily agree to waive your privacy (as most social media user agreements require you to) or, you are not bound by the UK data protection act: say, like a US company trading in the US - like FB - isn't.

Even if you sign up under the .co.uk domain, the master authority resides with the holding company - in this case Palo Alto, CA, registered FB.

And even if the UK Data protection agency could assert jurisdiction over UK FB users' info, I'd doubt very much if they had the manpower, budget or will to chase FB across US and UK courts.

In other words - FB did the math.

More money to be made by violating or pushing against individual country privacy laws, than to be lost defending legal actions wherever they may come from.

 

[larss]

Unless of course, you voluntarily agree to waive your privacy (as most social media user agreements require you to) or, you are not bound by the UK data protection act: say, like a US company trading in the US - like FB - isn't.

Even if you sign up under the .co.uk domain, the master authority resides with the holding company - in this case Palo Alto, CA, registered FB.

And even if the UK Data protection agency could assert jurisdiction over UK FB users' info, I'd doubt very much if they had the manpower, budget or will to chase FB across US and UK courts.

In other words - FB did the math.

More money to be made by violating or pushing against individual country privacy laws, than to be lost defending legal actions wherever they may come from.

However, their own terms do not allow them to divulge contact information without you allowing it. Personally, I have all items selected to friends only. If FB did release the information, I think that a class action suit through the some 400 million+ users of FB would fuck them over quite considerably. They just cannot afford to take the risk.

 

[ralph furley]

i think i'm the only person in America without a facebook account

 

[DJCowboy]

One thing people seem to be forgetting, Facebook is a business, it's become a service. So if this is what they choose to do, then so be it. They want to increase profits!!

 

[bazza599]

so glad im not on face fuck that beast that it is needs shutting down or a serious police warrant to see what they havent got on people next step is what shoe size you wear and how you wipe your arse !!!

 

[Hot Mega]

When Facebook Connect first launch, they got in some pretty hot water for selling email addresses and phone numbers to a "screened" list of advertisers. They did a pretty good job saving face by essentially closing down the program and saying they were "doing more research" into what their users wanted. From first hand experience, this is really on the mild end of some of the shit they've pulled.

If the actuality of their data farming and exploitation was ever properly exposed, they'd be sitting in front of Congressional Committees and Federal Judges from here to eternity.

That being said.

They actually tel you all the shit they are going to do in the sign up process.

Only no one reads it because it's pages of legal gibberish..

But, you want to update the world every half an hour with the minutiae of your dull suburban breeder life ......... then you get what you signed up for.

Typical. But who couldn't see something like that coming. Info is big business. Personal info is even bigger business..aside from the self-inflicted idiocy of advertising your personal business around the world (unless it's your business to do so) to potentially be abused...it makes perfect sense.

i think i'm the only person in america without a facebook account

Not exactly...seems like you and I are in pretty exclusive company.:anonymous

 

[himperv203]

If that happens I am out of facebook. lets have a poll for this.

 

[Rey C.]

i think i'm the only person in america without a facebook account

Not exactly...seems like you and I are in pretty exclusive company.:anonymous

Right here, my good men. :wave: There are at least three of us here. Maybe it's an age or generational thing (although I didn't get into video games when I was a kid either), but I just don't get the craze over FaceBook, MySpace and all the other social networking sites.

And I'd say we are in the minority. The only social networking site that I *might* join is LinkedIn. But I'm sure they'd be just as bad, if not worse than FaceBook, since there, you'd be giving even more intimate/professional details about yourself.

BTW, from what I understand, Google (the "Don't Be Evil" kids) does the same thing with their Gmail and other services. That's how all of them make money. What sucks is that so many people don't realize that they're working on "data farms", as free labor for the benefit of Mr. Suckerburg. I've been meaning to see the movie on how he stole the Facebook idea from his college buddies. He is one slick little bastard. But he'll never make a dime off me... if I can help it.

 

[GibbsGrad2002]

I am out of facebook it that happens