Facebook privacy has gotten a lot of media attention in the past month. Art's
presentations (on his blog) have explained it better than many others, including
this week's Time Magazine.
Thanks to Art for posting this message (although I've apparently read it a month
after its original post; I've been wading through 800 emails over the past week).
I'm pretty vigilant about my privacy settings on Facebook but he brought to my
attention some that I was not aware of.
I post a lot of articles from the NY Times onto my Facebook profile. I wonder
where THAT information is going. I may stop doing it as it is rare that any of
my friends respond to it anyway :)
Debra Johnson
Librarian/Substitute Teacher
Newark, Delaware
djjz62@comcast.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Art Wolinsky" <awolinsky@3DWRITING.COM>
To: "LM NET" <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 6:11:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Facebook's Latest Incursion Into Our Privacy
In case you haven't heard, Facebook has made a move which will allow
external web sites access your data 24/7 and use it as they see
fit. Of course you have to authorize this through a button on the
web site, but many people will do so without understanding the
implications, which are significant to say the least.
I blogged about it yesterday and today and created a presentation to
accompany each blog along with a downloadable version of each
presentation. The first presentation shows how to check your privacy
settings in light of the new policy. The second is a follow up with
additional privacy setting changes that were prompted by an incident
today. http://tlrr.blogspot.com
In a nutshell, it means that your friends may be finding out
information about you and your web habits without you even realizing
it. Even friends of your friends may now be given information about
you that they would never normally see through Facebook.
Here's an example I detail in the second presentation. When I listen
to Pandora.com, it plays music based on my likes and dislikes and
remembers them all. Now let's say I like a particular song and click
on the Facebook button on Pandora to share it with my friends and
then agree to let the app do it's thing. The message goes through
and my friends can now hear the great song. I "THINK" that all I did
was share one song with my friends, Pandora is aptly named, because
what I have done is open Pandora's box. Let's see how this now plays
out to possibly cause me trouble.
Many of my professional colleagues are members of Pandora. They
never have and never will click on the Facebook button, but that
doesn't matter. Tomorrow my boss might be listening to music at
Pandora. As it offers him new songs he clicks on like or dislike in
order to train Pandora to the type of music he wants to hear. Along
comes a song with some pretty raunchy comedy lyrics. My boss being a
little straight laced, the song offends him and he immediately clicks
dislike. But wait! Something catches his eye. Down under the like
and dislike button there is a biography of the artist and along side
that is my smiling face (from my Facebook Profile) and a note that
Art Wolinsky likes this song. That's information that I would never
share on Facebook, but Pandora posted it because it knows my likes
and dislikes, it knows who all my friends are on Facebook, and it has
my permission to tell all my friends, all because I thought I was
simply telling my friends about one little song I heard.
Are you beginning to see a problem here?
Art
Art Wolinsky
OEO 3DWriting.com
Technology Director - Online Internet Institute
Educational Technology Director - WiredSafety.org
awolinsky@3dwriting.com
(609) 618-4433
I am perfectly capable of learning from my mistakes.
I will surely learn a great deal today.
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