Never Trust Facebook

Post by pjbrunet » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 7:25 AM UTC

sgrenfro wrote: post #132

My name is Scott Renfro, and I’m a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. I thought I'd post the comment I submitted on the original blog post here as well. We’ve put a lot of work into making deletions permanent, so I can imagine how frustrated you must be. I’m pretty sure those story deletions are permanent, and I can’t think of any place where we can or do automatically restore user-deleted…

Post by russellsprouts » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 7:37 AM UTC

robryan wrote: post #160

russellsprouts wrote: post #159

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> For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, SUBJECT TO YOUR PRIVACY and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your I…

In practice does that happen? Does changing the settings on an image destroy previously made shares?

Post by pjbrunet » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 7:45 AM UTC

diminoten wrote: post #113

For the 100th time, the only reason any of us are on Facebook and not Google+ or MySpace or Friendster or whatever is because all of our friends are on there with us. Facebook can and will do whatever it wants to abuse this fact, and as long as they provide the most convenient way to communicate with other people, there is nothing we can do about it, period. So rant away, my Internet friends, it's all we can do anywa…

Post by pjbrunet » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 7:55 AM UTC

boi_v2 wrote: post #99

I bet when you "delete" something facebook (and many others) just marks it as "hidden" so you will think it is gone. The same happen to me but with yahoo, I had an old account that was long unused, because I didn't want to lose any contact that could happen I redirected it to another email, then, after a couple of years, I decided to delete the account because only spams were being redirected. A year later I notice t…

Post by jamestc » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 9:13 AM UTC

pjbrunet wrote: post #158

hannibal5 wrote: post #52

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Growing number of my friends are in FB with fake names and identities. It's more complicated when you add new friends or they want to add you, but otherwise it's ok for keeping touch with close friends. Yes, its against FB user agreement but fuck that.

In theory it sounds like a good idea, but imagine a scenario where your bank needs to confirm your identity and they outsource this task to a 3rd party that has incorrect data about you (actually happened to me) and when you provide the correct information they tell you it's incorrect and conclude you are not who you say you are. In my particular case they just had old data that was simply inaccurate. Is it unlikely…