O Facebook recolhe informações sobre você mesmo que você não tenha uma conta

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O Facebook recolhe informações sobre você mesmo que você não tenha uma conta lá. Pior ainda se seus amigos usarem apps.

Stalking on Facebook Is Easier Than You Think

When your friends use Facebook apps, they compromise your privacy, too

BY Steven Cherry // Mon, July 23, 2012


A few weeks ago we did a show about how Facebook creates shadow accounts for people who aren’t on Facebook. So even if you’ve been staying clear of it to protect your privacy, you’re not really able to. If enough people around you are on Facebook, it starts to collect information about you.

It turns out the Facebook privacy problem is even worse than we thought. For people on the network, there’s a similar issue. If you’ve been avoiding the apps, whether it’s Farmville or the Huffington Post, because the apps want access to all of your information, it turns out that staying clear of them isn’t enough.

If your friends have signed up for them, the apps not only compromise your friends’ privacy but yours as well. And because you have no control over how your friends use their accounts, you have no real control over your own. For example, here are the terms of service for the Huffington Post: “By clicking ‘Visit website’ above, this app will receive: your basic info, your profile info, description, birthday, interests and likes. This app may post on your behalf, including articles you read and more.”

To prove how serious the privacy problem is, at a recent hackathon sponsored by the website TechCrunch, a software developer by the name of Oliver Yeh built and demoed an app that should scare the dickens out of just about any Facebook user. It’s called Stalkbook, and as the name suggests, it facilitates stalking.

Artigo completo:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/telecom/internet/stalking-on-facebook-is-easier-than-you-think/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=072612