Once again, a new Facebook violates privacy and the empowerment of users in pursuit of social network growth. Growth in number of users at the expense of reduced reliability, which does not seem to worry about their top executives. The new "Groups", as amended on 6 October, and was spreading to all Facebook profiles worldwide over the following days, allows the user to include their contacts in different sets (family, friends and colleagues ), to better select what information can see each of them. But the novelty, as configured, soon began to generate complaints, and that allows a subset of friends to access and make updates without confirmation or approval.
Among others, the influential blogger Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc. has delivered its complaint to be added without his authorization or consent in certain groups, some damaging to his image. "At no time asked if I wanted to join this group and I was never informed that he had been enrolled force." " If you want to test his new duties before releasing me, could save maybe some trials every year for violation of confidentiality , Calacanis explained in an email he sent to Facebook. Jaime
Schöpflin, Facebook spokesman, announced that " i s one of our friends are added to groups that we do not want to belong, or behaves in a way that we do not like, we may ask you to stop, can block or make more than our friend, and so will not have any more the possibility of adding to any group . "
Meanwhile, Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, said that simply unsubscribe from the user group involved in it we lose that faculty. However, we understand, just that there is the possibility of taking a single case that we have to refuse to post, by using the "unsubscribe" so that the damage is certain.
However, Facebook seems to prefer to convey to users the responsibility in their choice of whom to attend and add a "friend" rather than establish a simple confirmation process with the network that would run the risk of being limited in its expansion. As always, it is under the user's decision-making power the only way to protect your privacy: not to proceed with their profile as they are currently configured Facebook's privacy terms, at least until the privacy protection of each user is real and effective. Maria Teresa Nevado
Source: www.facebook.com, http://techcrunch.com, http://calacanis.com
(Published in Aude, Information Security)
Among others, the influential blogger Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc. has delivered its complaint to be added without his authorization or consent in certain groups, some damaging to his image. "At no time asked if I wanted to join this group and I was never informed that he had been enrolled force." " If you want to test his new duties before releasing me, could save maybe some trials every year for violation of confidentiality , Calacanis explained in an email he sent to Facebook. Jaime
Schöpflin, Facebook spokesman, announced that " i s one of our friends are added to groups that we do not want to belong, or behaves in a way that we do not like, we may ask you to stop, can block or make more than our friend, and so will not have any more the possibility of adding to any group . "
Meanwhile, Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, said that simply unsubscribe from the user group involved in it we lose that faculty. However, we understand, just that there is the possibility of taking a single case that we have to refuse to post, by using the "unsubscribe" so that the damage is certain.
However, Facebook seems to prefer to convey to users the responsibility in their choice of whom to attend and add a "friend" rather than establish a simple confirmation process with the network that would run the risk of being limited in its expansion. As always, it is under the user's decision-making power the only way to protect your privacy: not to proceed with their profile as they are currently configured Facebook's privacy terms, at least until the privacy protection of each user is real and effective. Maria Teresa Nevado
Source: www.facebook.com, http://techcrunch.com, http://calacanis.com
(Published in Aude, Information Security)
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