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From my #2:
As of today, there is a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization," which shares data with non-facebook websites, & is automatically set to "Allow."
Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications & Websites ->Instant Personalization and UN-CHECK "Allow."
if you 'un-check' this and your friends don't, your friends are still sharing info about you!
if you 'un-check' this and your friends don't, your friends are still sharing info about you!
JJ-
You can also try this setting to block what others share about you:
Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications & Websites > What your friends can share about you > uncheck everything on the list that you do not want shared.
o5
JJ-
You can also try this setting to block what others share about you:
Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications & Websites > What your friends can share about you > uncheck everything on the list that you do not want shared.
o5
Thanks, already had that one,, but well worth sharing..
Bill Harsey
05-05-2010, 09:50
From my #2:
As of today, there is a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization," which shares data with non-facebook websites, & is automatically set to "Allow."
Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications & Websites ->Instant Personalization and UN-CHECK "Allow."
if you 'un-check' this and your friends don't, your friends are still sharing info about you!
Just checked in my account, followed your directions and couldn't find " instant personalization" anywhere.
of course my computer skills are legendary.
of course my computer skills are legendary.
Mr H....I'm pretty sure knifemakers are not allowed in Facebook. Won't you bring the whole system down? Consider America's youth - their entire future rests in FB - do you really want to deny them their only happiness? :D:D
Just checked in my account, followed your directions and couldn't find " instant personalization" anywhere.
Bill I just step thru the sequence and it's still there on mine??
Do what I do,, call your 10 yo G-kid, they will know what to do.. :D
ZonieDiver
05-05-2010, 11:42
JJ and Orion -
Thanks for the info.
SparseCandy
05-05-2010, 12:56
Just checked in my account, followed your directions and couldn't find " instant personalization" anywhere.
of course my computer skills are legendary.
When I went in to change mine, it said it was a pilot program. Maybe they only picked a certain random sampling for the pilot?
JJ_BPK thank you for the heads up.
From FB:
We have established a small pilot program with an exclusive set of partners—currently yelp.com, Microsoft Docs.com, and pandora.com—to offer a personalized experience as soon as you visit. These partners have been given access to public information on Facebook (e.g., names, friend lists and interests and likes) to personalize your experience.
When you first visit any of these three partner sites while logged into Facebook, you’ll see a blue bar appear at the top of the site letting you know that your experience is being personalized. You can choose to learn more, remove the personalized experience or click "x" to remove the bar. If you don't want your experience personalized on these limited number of sites, you can opt out by clicking here. You can also navigate there by going to 'Account' -> 'Privacy settings' -> 'Applications and Websites' -> 'Instant Personalization Pilot Program'
Maybe they only picked a certain random sampling for the pilot?
It's unclear whether the "small pilot program" refers to the number of FB users or "partner sites." In any case, they've given FB users two ways to opt out. If one way doesn't work, try the other.
-Susan
Dozer523
05-05-2010, 16:12
"Allowing instant personalization will give you a richer experience as you browse the web.
If you opt-out, you will have to manually activate these experiences.
Please keep in mind that if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their experience on these partner sites unless you block the application."
Does that sound like someone trying to talk you into a blind date with their fat cousin?
thanks for info
and btw yall should add me :D
Does that sound like someone trying to talk you into a blind date with their fat cousin?
"But she's a sweet gal...and a hell of a good cook."
Cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) describing the Yak Woman to Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase).
dadof18x'er
05-06-2010, 05:15
From my #2:
As of today, there is a new privacy setting called "Instant Personalization," which shares data with non-facebook websites, & is automatically set to "Allow."
Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications & Websites ->Instant Personalization and UN-CHECK "Allow."
if you 'un-check' this and your friends don't, your friends are still sharing info about you!
here's a few more things to consider....
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/june/electronics-computers/social-insecurity/7-things-to-stop-doing-on-facebook/index.htm
bandycpa
05-06-2010, 05:46
JJ_BPK and orion5,
Thanks for the input. Settings changed per your suggestions.
I also blocked the applications "microsoftdocs", "pandora", and "yelp" per the FaceBook faq on Social Plugins and Instant Personalization.
Some days, it just seems easier to delete the account. I understand that even that is a herculean task.
Bandy
I received this youtube video link this AM,, Disturbing..
I have used FaceBook a little. Mostly to keep up with my kids.
I think it is very invasive and like many of today's portals, it espouses
one virtue and covets another.
Espouses: Social Networking is the wave of the future, connect with the
world.. We will give you access to your friends anywhere & any time & any
place...
Coverts: They are collecting personal information and using it behind your
back. Every key stroke is recorded and analyzed for nouns and verbs,
software statisticians spit out fore casted answers before you finish typing the
sentence. They say it's to give you access to things you want or like. This
is true, But in reality they are selling the data to businesses that want to
sell to you.
Watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng
If you are not on the inside,, you aren't anywhere.
You must adapt to survive..
My $00,002
ZonieDiver
05-06-2010, 09:39
When I went in to change mine, it said it was a pilot program. Maybe they only picked a certain random sampling for the pilot?
JJ_BPK thank you for the heads up.
And maybe we'll all get some cool wings out of the deal! :D
I received this youtube video link this AM,, Disturbing..
I have used FaceBook a little. Mostly to keep up with my kids.
I think it is very invasive and like many of today's portals, it espouses
one virtue and covets another.
Espouses: Social Networking is the wave of the future, connect with the
world.. We will give you access to your friends anywhere & any time & any
place...
Coverts: They are collecting personal information and using it behind your
back. Every key stroke is recorded and analyzed for nouns and verbs,
software statisticians spit out fore casted answers before you finish typing the
sentence. They say it's to give you access to things you want or like. This
is true, But in reality they are selling the data to businesses that want to
sell to you.
Watch this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFZ0z5Fm-Ng
If you are not on the inside,, you aren't anywhere.
You must adapt to survive..
My $00,002
JJ-
I agree with you that it is invasive. I prefer not to put on the tin foil hat.....just yet.....I think FB is looking for business opportunities to expand, but you know that can always lead to greed/abuse.
I found this perspective interesting in the link below...it's from Mark Cuban's blog (billionaire entrepreneur/Dallas Mavericks owner).
LINK (http://blogmaverick.com/2010/04/22/is-facebook-the-new-internet-and-how-soon-before-microsoft-tries-to-buy-it/)
Will be interesting to see what Apple/Google do to either stop FB, or one up them!
o5
...I think FB is looking for business opportunities to expand, but you know that can always lead to greed/abuse.
Right you are! In fact, it makes sense for them cash in. Let's just hope they will be wise and good spirited about it.
I found this perspective interesting in the link below...it's from Mark Cuban's blog (billionaire entrepreneur/Dallas Mavericks owner).
LINK (http://blogmaverick.com/2010/04/22/is-facebook-the-new-internet-and-how-soon-before-microsoft-tries-to-buy-it/)
Will be interesting to see what Apple/Google do to either stop FB, or one up them!
I don't see Apple as being a threat to Facebook. Their forte is their hardware. In that sense it would appear that they compliment each other. The iPhone is probably the most FB friendly mobile on the market.
Google, on the other hand, may need to watch their backs... The search engine from within FB, although quite primitive, seems to be picking up speed. Its external engine is powered by Bing.com, which belongs to Microsoft! So it would seem that Cuban may have a point there. That said, FB had the chance to sell out in the past and they declined. Looks like they are more into partnering than handing over the keys...
When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it's called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge? We discovered Wednesday that this is actually happening, and stopping it isn't as easy as checking a box in your privacy settings.
If you visit certain sites while logged in to Facebook, an app for those sites will be quietly added to your Facebook profile. You don't have to have a Facebook window open, you don't need to be signed in to these sites for the apps to appear, there's no notification, and there doesn't appear to be an option to opt-out anywhere in Facebook's byzantine privacy settings.
The apps appear to be related to Facebook's latest sharing features and tools. The sites currently leaving this trail all have Facebook integration, and the list includes heavyweights such as the Gawker network of blogs, the Washington Post, TechCrunch, CNET, New York Magazine, and formspring.me.
It isn't entirely clear what information these apps are pulling from user profiles or feeding back to Facebook. They aren't automatically visible to friends viewing your profile page, but if you go to an application's profile page, you can see a list of your friends who also have that app installed, essentially getting a unintentional peek at their browsing habits. On the other side there are sites like the Washington Post's, which has a Facebook Network News box showing a list of your friends who have recently shared a Washington Post article on Facebook.
How to block the apps
Opting out of Instant Personalization does not stop these apps from appearing. Unfortunately, removing these kinds of applications requires more vigilance than just altering a setting.
To see a list of your current Facebook applications, click Account in the top right corner of Facebook, then select Application Settings from the drop-down menu. If you click on the Edit Settings link for one of the new applications, you'll always see one tab called Additional Permissions that has a box that's unchecked by default. Checking it will give that application permission to "Publish recent activity (one line stories) to [your] wall." Sometimes there is a second tab with an option to add a bookmark for that link to your wall. And a few apps also have a Profile tab where you can add a box to your profile for that site and pick a privacy level for it.
Clicking the X to delete an application will temporarily remove it from your applications list, but it will just be re-added as you return to that site. One work-around is to always log out of Facebook before surfing the Web. Another is to block each application after it appears. In order to permanently block an application, you have to click on the Profile link for that application in the Applications Settings window, then click Block Application in the menu on the left side of the app's page.
What Facebook intended
The new features in Facebook's newly rolled-out Open Graph API are supposed to be used, with permission, for things like cross posting comments and reviews on Facebook and external sites. For example, if you are logged in to a site like PC World or Macworld using Facebook Connect and you leave a comment on an article, you'll see a pop-up message asking if you'd like to publish the comment as a story to your wall. If you click Publish, the comment will show up in your friend's news feeds.
It's already been a rough week for Facebook and privacy. Recent issues have given the impression of a disorganized and buggy platform, and raised concerns about Facebook's ability to responsibly store and manage users' private information. Hopefully this latest issue is just another bug and not a new way of operating for the social networking site.
From PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/195728/facebooks_new_features_secretly_add_apps_to_your_p rofile.html)
bandycpa
05-06-2010, 12:38
And maybe we'll all get some cool wings out of the deal! :D
Thread cross-pollinization. I love it ZD!
Bandy
here's a few more things to consider....
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/june/electronics-computers/social-insecurity/7-things-to-stop-doing-on-facebook/index.htm
Great link.....
Does anyone have the email that covered pre-teens on MS or FB and how a cop acted as a 13 y/o boy and then "meet" a 12 y/o on FB or MS and then showed up at her house and explain to the father and girl on how he found all the information out about her on her MS page. Real or not, it is a great point on why not to post personal info on these site. I would like to show me kids this email if someone has it. I could not belive how many kids just put everything on their accounts; found this out looking at my Daughters "friends'" pages.WOW WOW!!!! Parant's are not looking or befriending their own kids pages on FB or MS. Hello do you need a wake up call Mom or Dad!!!!
If you have the email PM or send it please.
NoRoadtrippin
05-10-2010, 14:44
Here's a couple of good articles:
http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline/
dadof18x'er
05-10-2010, 15:16
Here's a couple of good articles:
http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline/
thanks for the post, my days on FB are numbered. I had to laugh at the share link on the gizmodo page, it's now on my wall :D
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incarcerated
06-27-2010, 13:54
http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20100626/IT03/6260302/
White House envisions simple, secure digital identities for Web users
By TIM KAUFFMAN | Last Updated: June 26, 2010
Individuals going online to send e-mails, make purchases and check their medical records would be able to forgo the dizzying array of user names and passwords and instead obtain more secure credentials for completing those transactions, under a proposed White House cyberspace policy issued Friday.
The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace lays out the Obama administration's strategy for enhancing the security of business conducted online. An interagency team, led by the Homeland Security Department, spent a year developing the strategy, seeking input from about 70 industry advisory councils and associations.
"What has emerged is a blueprint to reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities and improve online privacy protections through the use of trusted digital identities," White House cybersecurity coordinator Howard Schmidt said in a June 25 blog post announcing the release of the draft policy.
The policy calls for creating an online environment, dubbed an Identity Ecosystem, in which individuals, organizations, services and devices would trust each other because their digital identities have been established and authenticated through authoritative sources such as smart identity cards or digital certificates.
Participation in the Identity Ecosystem would be voluntary. But users would benefit through enhanced privacy protections and interoperability, which would allow individuals to use the same credentials to access a variety of online services and websites, the policy envisions....
White House envisions simple, secure digital identities for Web users
Big Brother looking to protect your privacy and solve your internet security issues (at your cost)! :confused:
Here is an excerpt from the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/ns_tic.pdf):
Envision It!
An individual voluntarily requests a smart identity card from
her home state. The individual chooses to use the card to
authenticate herself for a variety of online services, including:
•Credit card purchases,
•Online banking,
•Accessing electronic health care records,
•Securely accessing her personal laptop computer,
•Anonymously posting blog entries, and
•Logging onto Internet email services using a
pseudonym.
Envision it, you could use your 'smart' identity card to login to Facebook! :eek: