Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
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Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
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Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#2Less sensational headline: Facebook Now Allows You to Share Your Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
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Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#4Less sensational headline: Facebook Now Allows You to Share Your Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
Right, but the point RWW was trying to make is that the dialog doesn't exactly scream "we're sharing your phone number!" It looks very similar to any other dialog 90% of the Internet might click through without so much as a glance.
Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#5Where's the option to choose which items get sent? Looks like all or nothing.
Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#6Where's the option to choose which items get sent? Looks like all or nothing.
I have been wondering that for a while; why isn't there a conditional permissions system that you can choose what gets shared or not. It wouldn't be that hard for app developers to sanity check for what is available or not, and tell the user if it is an issue.
The all of nothing mentality is flawed, much like most of Facebook's decisions it seems. (imo)
Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#7Less sensational headline: Facebook Now Allows You to Share Your Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
Not really. That implies Facebook are offering a way to push your phone number and data into third party apps.
What they are infact doing is now allowing third-parties to request extra, and very very personal, information about you using the same dialog that people have effectively now been trained to basically click-through.
I really think this dialog needs two things:
1) Something that highlights the fact you are allowing third-parties access beyond your basic profile. All personal information is not equal.
2) A way for the user to opt out of sharing this extra information. As a result, the app may have to deny you access if it really really does need your address (why it would is hard to imagine), but this "all or nothing" approach seems wrong to me.
Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#8Where's the option to choose which items get sent? Looks like all or nothing.
The app has to warn you as to what is getting sent; you then get to decide if you want the app or not.
In other words, it's not really "all or nothing" as much as "whatever this particular app asks for, or pass on this app."
Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#9Less sensational headline: Facebook Now Allows You to Share Your Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
The next thing to do would be to wait for them to swap the defaults and make it so that you have to specifically opt-out of the scheme, or have your contact information casually shared with a set of third parties. Then we could scream for privacy and spread instructions on how to disable that using this week's user interface to the privacy settings.
Re: Facebook Now Shares Phone Number & Address With Third-Party Apps
#10I seem to remember that not so long ago it was standard advice not to give out your address or phone number to people you don't know on the internet.