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Facebook Applications Security and Privacy
Facebook Applications Security and Privacy I have been using Facebook for a few months now, but I am started to think it is no better than MySpace. I have never been one of those social butterflies, not because I didn't have the ability to be one, but because I just don't feel the need to. I am still a social person, but I just don't need to be in the same physical location as the people I know. Distance from certain wacko family members is not always a bad thing. So I try to keep in touch with email and phone calls and methods like that. One problem. My entire family remain in the technical stone age. My father still has a dial up internet connection, and is rarely online. My sister and her husband, have rarely touched their computer, and now that they do it is only because of their newborn baby girl and all of the pictures they have taken of her. They didn't even have an internet connection until about 2 weeks ago. How do you live without the internet? Getting back to the point of this intel, I started using MySpace and Facebook and other forms of social sites to keep in touch with my more tech savvy friends. Yeah... no family members to speak of that even know what MySpace or Facebook even is. I do however have a select number of friends that do, and use it a lot more than me, because again I have never felt the need to always be chatting with people. The occasional "catching up" is good enough for me. I don't have time to listen to gossip about this, that, and something else that I really could not care less about, on a daily basis. Once or twice a month is good enough for me. Anywho... moving right along, I started using MySpace and hated it. I got more spam from joining MySpace than I have in my entire history of being online. And yes I have been online since it was even possible. My first modem was a 2400 baud modem on a Compuserv connection. For those less tech savvy people, 2400 baud is less than 1 kbps. 1 kbps is approximately 1 percent of a 1 MBps connection. That will give you a very vivid picture of how slow it was. BBS's were very popular back then, because with a connection that slow, pictures were just too bandwidth intensive to download. Back to what I was saying... I ditched MySpace and decided to try out Facebook. I like Facebook a lot. It is very clean and less spammy. It has one thing that has my concerns, though. It has what are known as Facebook Applications. Sometimes I don't know if I should trust these applications. I mean they want to have access to practically your entire profile. WTF? Why do I want some application to just have a free for all with my information? It never tells you what it will use that information for, so there is no real disclosure of what that application will be doing with your information. In the end, no matter how clean Facebook appears, it may be no better than MySpace because of these applications. So once site has consistent spam and the other has applications that are never upfront about what they will be doing with your information. There should be a bill presented to the government both locally and nationally that forces the creators of these applications to be very up front and honest about what they will be doing with your information. You as the user should know exactly who else is going to have access to your information. You need to know are they going to use my contacts to spam them with their crappy application? Are they going to publish or store my information somewhere else? Is it secure? Or does it run the risk of being hacked by some hacker to sell it to the highest bidder? They are as bad as the bankers and lawyers when it comes to contracts.
Lawyer: Sign here, here, here, and here, and initial here, here, and here. Me: What is it? Lawyer: Oh its nothing. It is just standard procedures. Everyone signs it. Me: [thinking in my head] That asshole didn't even answer my question. WTF am I signing?
So back to what I was saying, what are these applications really doing? I am sorry, but with ID theft being so prevalent on the web now, it makes one question things like that. |
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