Facebook and privacy: a cautionary tale

摘要

Facebook has been weathering a number of privacy-related storms lately, the most recent (at press time) being a new feature called "Instant Personalization", which allows partner websites - starting with Pandora, Yelp and Microsoft Docs - to personalize your experience based on the public info in your Facebook profile.rnJust before that announcement, Facebook changed its privacy policy so that public info such as "current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests" would be transformed into "connections" that can be shared publicly on sites with similar interests. So, for example, a Facebook site about mobile devices, say, will list every member who named "mobile devices" as an interest. The only way to get off the page is to delete the interest.