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Re:Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Cr... by ErrantX on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @05:36PM (#1319429)
I've not fully kept up with all the stories recently (been busy, I have a pretty open FB account anyway etc..) but as far as I was aware the only really problematic thing (from a privacy perspective) was the new favourites/likes etc. thing where certain things can appear on the "fan" page without you really realising.

I wasn't aware of anything else specific that was bending the privacy policy to the limit? Anyone care to fill me in on the TL;DR version?

(the social graph, as far as I saw, obeys your privacy settings)

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Re:Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Cr... by alex_c on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @06:54PM (#1319704)
I'm not following Facebook closely either, but two things I'm aware of:

- 3rd parties (app developers, Facebook Connect users, etc.) no longer have a 24hr limit on storing user data

- Open Graph basically means your Facebook info has the potential to be plastered all over the web if you're browsing without being logged out of Facebook

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Re:Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Cr... by megablast on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @06:48PM (#1319690)
Selling all your details to advertisers.

Constantly changing what is private and what is public.

Getting upset at someone using the data that they provide to the public for research purposes.

There is more.

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Re:Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Cr... by kmavm on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @07:05PM (#1319735)
"Selling all your details to advertisers."

Simply, no. There is no check you can write to facebook to in order to get a particular facebook user's, or set of users', information.

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Re:Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Cr... by yellowbkpk on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @09:00PM (#1319972)
Nope, they give it out for free via the graph API.
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