Barnes. Jernigan. The Face behind Facebook and Google: Is it Safe for Them to Have all Our Information? By Kiarash Adl Internet giants have a scary amount of our information.
I personally started feeling some fear when I was using Gmail and while reading an email, it suggested to me that I should add “Meeting, Tue Mar 29, 2011 7pm” to my calendar—which means that it scanned the content of my email and made an intelligent decision based on my information! I thought a good start to analyze what they do is their Privacy policies.
According to Google’s Privacy Policy, Google “may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Google services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services.” What exactly does this “better experience” mean? The other thing many of my friends and I and other people who have an account in Facebook, think about or at least once have thought about, is Facebook’s privacy settings, which determine who sees our photos, comments, personal information, and wall posts. Μετάφραση Google. Μετάφραση Google. Facebook Instant Personalization Feature Protested by Privacy Advocates - LedgerLink. News >> Browse Articles >> Controversies and Scandals News >> Browse Articles >> General Business News >> Browse Articles >> Government and Legislation News >> Browse Articles >> Technology and Innovation Featured Author: DailyTech DailyTech is a leading online magazine for a well-educated, tech audience.
Facebook has found itself in hot water over the last few months with very public changes to its privacy policy that would result in more of a user’s personal information being shared with third-party websites. Senator Schumer sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg raising concerns about the new security settings the site is adopting that allows access to personal information about users by third parties. MoveOn.org has posted a Facebook Group page titled “Facebook Respect my Privacy.” The uproar over the new privacy settings has to do with the instant personalization tool Facebook has launched. The instant personalization program is still in beta status. _© 2009, DailyTech. Facebook instant personalization: How to disable it, and why. Updated: see below.
Facebook's 'instant personalization' feature allows the walls between the social network and the world to be broken through for a seamless experience for all. While many have not been able to access the instant personalisation feature yet, many have found that it is turned on by default so many will be entirely unaware the feature even exists. However, this raises concerns amongst the 500 million and growing population of the social network, with the potential for better targeted adverts and more of your data handed out to other websites.
Information that is set or has been set to 'Everyone' may have already been copied elsewhere. How it works Provided you are logged into Facebook, certain websites like Pandora and Bing can 'personalise' their sites with data provided from your account. Only certain sites can access this, and permissions need to be granted to do this. How to turn it off 1. How to Opt Out of Facebook's Instant Personalization. This week, Facebook introduced the “open graph,” a giant expansion of the “social graph” concept on which Facebook is built.
The word “open” alone should be a tip-off that there are significant new privacy issues to weigh. In the open graph, Facebook sees us as connected not just to other people – our friends — on Facebook, but to myriad things all over the Web. These things could be favorite bands, news outlets or restaurants. It is a potentially powerful idea – Facebook wants to uncover all these interests and predilections and let us share them with our friends, whether we are at Facebook or somewhere else, in ways that could deepen personal connections and help us discover cool and interesting information.
But there is a price paid in privacy. If you like the idea of broadcasting which articles, bands and restaurants you like, you are in luck. If you do not want your activity to be published publicly, don’t use these Facebook features.