This is such an incredibly stupid idea that I would have trouble believing it, except that I watched the Huckabee video last night, the one with Chuck Norris, and I am now capapable of believing as many as six impossible things at once.
Who says the Bush administration is bad for education?
Of course, I meant "capable!"
If you are concerend about privace you dont' have a facebook account...that was easy
"Facebook: are you listening?"
Probably not.
How does Facebook become aware of your purchases? Have you given it your credit card numbers? Or is it cuing in on your email addresses?
And why the hell would anyone put their name and other identifying information on any social website for all to see? I've been stalked enough using mere pseudonyms to know that giving my real name to strangers is a rather stupid idea. The possibility of identity theft and other mischief is also out there. Best just to steer clear of it.
Well, as moonglum pointed out, staying away from Facebook and its dopplegangers is a surefire way of avoiding these problems. Moving to MyFace might be an option, at least until they start invading your privacy and stealing your freedom, too.
You think that's bad! The UK government has just admitted misplacing/losing-(possibly stolen) computer data on up to 25 million people!! Now, that's a cock-up (thanks Gordon)! Identity theft writ voluminous!
Umm, yeah, apparently they're listening.
And then they're blabbing your business. Isn't that the problem?
Ever since I had a client stalk me, I don't use none of that stuff. Never. No way.
Ummmm Not to appear to be too mucha idjit, but whaddahelliz Facebook?
Uh, maybe I don't really wanna know.
When you hear some security geek lambasting "social networking", I hope you will now know what he is on about.
This happens over, and over, and OVER. Nobody seems to draw the lesson. I have friends, who are light years from stupid, who list personal data on Facebook and Myspace and similar sites without a second thought. I wouldn't touch that proposition with an 20 meter insulated pole.
If a web site with high enough traffic to have to pay steady serious money for their bandwidth consumption starts volunteering to handle your personal information free, for nothing, beware.
If you don't want it spread all over the place, don't volunteer it.
Better yet, don't even go there. Because an honest broker will tell you what the usage charges are up front. And because even the most honest broker is liable to have a leaky database, which is probably not encrypted.
I'm not kidding about that last one. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is the privacyrights.org chronology of personal information data breaches since January, 2005.
Read it and weep. 215,990,450 records so far.
And counting.
Is Facebook operating in Europe ? If it is, then its violating the EU privacy acts. IIRC, this act got micro$oft in trouble.
Where I work has a pretty liberal personal-use policy for the net, but we had to uniformly block Facebook because of the amount of malware and spyware it was pushing down--enough to choke our firewalls and servers.
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