The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell

Re:The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell by mrgoldenbrown on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:42PM (#3031085)

You are assuming that only people that you have friended will be able to see your stuff. How long before facebook changes their polices again, so that all information is viewable by default to the public? Or before they sell it all to markters? Or before another app developer finds an exploit in the API to let them access anyone's information? When beacon came out, the outcry was loud enough to make Facebook back off. But that doesn't mean they won't try something similarly bold again.

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Re:The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell by unreal37 on Friday September 23, 2011 @04:42PM (#3031511)

No I am not assuming anything - I am speaking about the way privacy currently works on FB. You are assuming that at some point in the future FB will change their privacy settings and everyone can see your posts. In which case, FB may not be for you.

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Re:The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell by djackson on Friday September 23, 2011 @04:37PM (#3031493)

> Or before they sell it all to markters

They do this now...

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Re:The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell by lbrandy on Saturday September 24, 2011 @03:28AM (#3032764)

No we don't.

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Re:The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell by pbhjpbhj on Saturday September 24, 2011 @09:17AM (#3033151)

So you're saying as an official comment from a Facebook employee that Facebook at no time sell personal data? Not even marketing profiles as composites? This is/would be big news to me.

In a way one could argue that allowing targeting of ads so tightly, using personal data, is commercial gain through that personal data. Not sure I'd personally push it that far though.

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Re:The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell by lbrandy on Saturday September 24, 2011 @03:55PM (#3034190)

> So you're saying as an official comment from a Facebook employee...

I come to, and comment on, this site because I believe it is filled largely with people of an above-average sophistication when it comes to these kinds of issues. Don't make me reconsider with this kind of inanity.

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Re:The Facebook Timeline is creepy as hell by pbhjpbhj on Saturday September 24, 2011 @04:23PM (#3034241)

I'm just trying to clarify - sorry if you think certainty is not sophisticated enough for you.

If you can't make the statement for legal reasons then say that. If you can't make the statement for other reasons say that. If you don't want to comment officially then say that. I don't think it's that inane - either they (you) do sell data or don't; just strikes me that if you can't make such a statement officially then you're not likely in a position to really know if it's true or not.

TBH I'd just assumed that FB do sell such data, to know that they don't sell any personal data (as I indicated) is a big result IMO and one that I don't feel I've seen championed. Pretty much I assume any website with a large subscriber base sells such data unless they explicitly tell me they don't; even then I'm rarely convinced.

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