Facebook‘s Proposed Privacy Policy Updates Expand ’Data-Collecting Tactics’
- Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:02pm by
Liz Klimas
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Facebook will soon be updating its privacy policy in the name of making its “practices and policies more clear.” Where have we heard that before (think Google)?
(Related: Google’s new privacy policy rolls out today despite opposition)
According to a post on its site governance page about the policy update, Facebook states that the changes include some “clearer” language updates as well as administrative and site safety updates. PC World had an attorney review the updates and she said they are really about expanding Facebook’s role in reaching and distributing your personal data:
“In general, the changes reflect the fact that Facebook is extending its data-collecting tactics in all directions: towards people who never even signed up for Facebook, activities that aren’t clearly defined as sharing, and mediums that aren’t clearly defined as advertising,” Sarah A. Downey, an attorney with Abine, a Boston-based provider of online privacy services.
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“Furthermore, this statement is take it or leave it: users agree to it simply by using Facebook,” she added. “Most of them will never know when or if the terms change, let alone what they mean.”
ZDNet points out that Facebook is also changing the name of the policy itself from “Privacy Policy” to “Data Use Policy,” a move which ZDNet says better reflects what the document actual describes:
In a way this is a good change. Facebook will use the information you provide according to the privacy settings you have specified. Facebook will however, use all of the data that you have given it.
ZDNet also explains that even apps you choose not to authorize yourself will know more about you. Facebook states that when those who can see your content — like your friends — use an application “your content and information is shared with the application.”
If you don’t like these changes, you have until COB Pacific time on Friday to send Facebook your thoughts. PC World notes that according to Facebook’s rights statement, if feedback on a change exceeds 7,000 comments, the whole Facebook community will be given alternatives and be asked to vote.
Facebook states that your continued use of your account will signify your acceptance of their new policy once it is finalized.
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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:47pmhttp://blog.american.com/2012/03/the-nsas-new-capabilities-are-a-threat-to-our-freedoms/
Report Post »Byrn67
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:30amif thay come after me thay must be haveing a very very boring day at work . Lol
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:26amI love how the NSA came out the other day claiming not to have the tech to be able to syphon through the U.S. email/texts/phone calls/etc…..
Report Post »Does that mean China and Iran are more advanced than we are? China can block a story from the web about some rich kid wrecking his car. Even peoples posts about the wreck. Hmmmmmmm………
nowonuno
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:17pmLook here http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
Report Post »WakingSheep
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 9:21amDeleted
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on March 23, 2012 at 8:44am“If you don’t like these changes, you have until COB Pacific time on Friday to send Facebook your thoughts.”
Report Post »And how is that possible? Give it a try sometime.
grayling646
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 10:07pmDeleted my acc’t six months ago. Didn‘t much care what my friends had for lunch anyway or what they’re wearing Friday night or where they went on vacation or that their kid won the baseball game or…..
Report Post »daniel1138
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 10:03pmFascistBook
Report Post »Studebaker
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:54pmDeleted life-sucking Facebook acct, Deactivated LinkedIn, changed email address – you want to contact me – call me, if you don’t have my number there is a reason. No more of this stalking my every move crap. Under the radar is a good thing.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:41pmNot a big user of Facebook. This is why.
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:32pmFluke facebook and pootube for that matter! I like all of you cons and libs more than most of the people I am so-called friends with on that crap site, and I know you all better than most of them too! I have been justifying my page by reminding myself that there are a few select people that I really want to keep in touch with. Where are the comparable alternatives to these monstrocities?
Report Post »auntbee
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:18pmJust don‘t let on you’re caucasian or white or a Christian or an American and they will leave you alone.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:16pmWell, I am adding another one to my no-use and no comment group. There is TMI asked for that I am not comfortable with.
Report Post »kangaroo
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:12pmI was going to cancel mine until I saw south park and Kyle got sucked into the puter lol. No really my stuff is boring unless you like fishing sailing or diving. Some of my mates are crazy libs thinking that may be good right now. Haven’t visited my page in 4 months unless someone has a birthday. Its just time out of my day I don’t get back. GO FISH
Report Post »OlefromMN
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:57pmI am near the point of not caring. If Obama is reelected I, and many others, will wind up in his reeducation camps. At least I know all the gun owners will be with me. :-)
Report Post »Delicaterose65
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:46pmWhat more does Mark need to know about us? Or is it SOMEONE ELSE??? LIKE THE GOVERNMENT??? Mark get out of their BEDS its a “love affair of usefulness”!! ……just saying
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:13pmAh so what. What they are doing will never last, mostly because Communist countries almost always fight Communist countries. Someone will nuke someone else or even just an EMP. As long as there is two people in the world there will never be one world government. And besides, if you don’t know you have lived before this life, it sucks to be you.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:18pmJust hope you are near or in the oil that floats and you’ve got nothing to worry about.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:28pmHere’s some night time mental exercises you can practice doing. Take command of your dreams and interact with them on a conscious level, and a way to know you‘re dreaming while you’re dreaming is the dream is too good to be true. That‘s another reason it’s good to do as the Bible says to do.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:38pmI mean, unless you want to be stuck in limbo after you die? Because God is Lord of the living.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:54pmNinety Nine Virgins? That’s really sad, because they are getting so damned by the people telling them that. They will be in limbo a long time looking for them virgins.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 7:07pmDon‘t put anything on the internet you don’t want EVERYONE to know. It’s that simple. They can see all my fishing pics and pics of my daughter if they want.
Report Post »nowonuno
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:13pmjustangry, to the larger point and not you personally, I used to think the same way. Unfortunately, even your photos can be exploited. Think about a young lady recently in the news that had her photos show up in unsavory places. Someone using social engineering might target you with a phishing scheme related to fishing. Someone could tie a face to a user name, an ip address, email or whatever. Before you know it there is a profile. Imagine doing this on the data mining scale of Facebook or Google. Yep, they can probably tell you what you had for lunch on the last Monday in January. I might believe that Facebook is the CIA or NSA, but they are too effective. Justbecareful :)
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