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A comment on Ask HN: How safe is it to login with Facebook or Google?.

Re:Ask HN: How safe is it to login with Facebook or Google? by hayksaakian on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:32PM (#4919310)
It depends on what permissions they ask of you. If they don't ask for any, then they might not even get your email address. Typically signing up for a service manually requires you to provide more personal info than they may otherwise get via FB or Google. With FB there are many permissions that you can 'skip' albeit this isn't intuitive.
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Re:Ask HN: How safe is it to login with Facebook or Google? by jman1 on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:44PM (#4919339)
What happens to my data on the website when I revoke my permissions from google/Facebook ?
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Re:Ask HN: How safe is it to login with Facebook or Google? by hayksaakian on Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:50PM (#4919356)
Iirc they're supposed to delete it, but whether they do depends on them.
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Re:Ask HN: How safe is it to login with Facebook or Google? by andrewhillman on Friday December 14, 2012 @02:04AM (#4919943)
FB doesn't delete any info - period. They seem to archive everything. For example, if you post a photo, then delete it, they still archive it. Delete to you is Archive to them. I have been doing small tests and this is what I have found.
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Re:Ask HN: How safe is it to login with Facebook or Google? by icebraining on Saturday December 15, 2012 @10:41AM (#4925471)
Parent(s) are talking about the websites that get data from Facebook, not Facebook itself.
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