No one values your privacy more than us, and the recent news about the potential INSERT MASSIVE PRIVACY BREACH HERE concerned us greatly. While the glitch only affected a small portion of our users, we want to assure everyone that we’re working harder than ever to safeguard your important data because at Facebook, that’s job 1. Also, we noticed that you still have the pair of Adidas running shoes in your cart from your visit to Zappos last month, do you want to order them along with some cream to put on the rash you told your boyfriend about last week?
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Pointing out the short comings of facebook gets people where? More data breaches? The sharing of more PM’s and private photos perhaps?
The idea that FB cares about what you criticize is almost laughable as they just don’t care about you, this site, any number on-going outside investigations or even Capitol Hill/Parliament.
I do understand your position( $$$ ) but I still find it “Weird”
Yeah. Bring back Tom!!
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yeah. i actually think an informed citizenry is pretty useless. and why the hell did we bother to create language in the first place?
consume.
that’s the only word any of us need to know.
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Hahahaha! That is awesome.
Obligatory:
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Nah, that would be Friendbook. This is Face book. He actually just wants all our faces.
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The reason I deleted Facebook (valentine’s day 2016) was mainly because I felt deeply uncomfortable having them have access to my PMs.
I was using messenger to have very personal conversations about relationships, depression, and the panopticon.
Now, I use Signal. I try to send little cute memes like the one below around the holidays to spark conversation and catch up but I probably have a smaller social circle. But people seem to appreciate me taking the time to remember birthdays manually, to meet up in person or just schedule a call.
In the case discussed, it looks like Facebook was feeding unusually detailed info from the users’ FB accounts (comments, posts, what have you) to Netflix and Spotify. I’d assume that the “Login with FB” userid was used in that sense as the conduit/link between FB and the services. It would seem a quick and dirty way to share info like that (and to do it the other way, as apps like Grindr and Bible+ were doing).
I can definitely see how those options would be helpful to a sysadmin on a site like this or Netflix or Spotify. It removes the hassle of dealing with login issues for a lot of users. If I did use FB or Twitter as a login here obviously I’d trust a lot more that BB wouldn’t abuse it in the way other sites have.
Unless there’s some added value to using my Google ID as a login on a third-party site, I generally use the local password option plus a non-cloud PW manager that I control. Two-factor on some sites with Authy.
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That’s not possible with the way the service is built - the site (say, the BBS) requests authorization with a key - FB then authenticates the user and sends back whatever data the user has been approved (usually, and in the case of the BBS, only the email address) to the authorizing site, to say "A user with email address X authed successfully). That’s all the information passed back and forth.
It’s extremely unlikely to me that they’d have required auth. Having worked in the advertising backend since 2005, It would have been a million times easier for netflix et al to simply query a Facebook API using a known key - be it the email addresses of users, or a facebook cross-site token. That doesn’t require consent of users and is picked up just by virtue of either 1) having an account with netflix et al, or 2) having a facebook cookie that can be read when you visit those sites.
Why involve authentication at all?
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I found this story on BoingBoing’s Facebook page. Do I win a prize?
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Hi everyone. I am a new here and can’t understand what’s going on here. Is it “I hate Zuckerberg thread”? 
Mostly. Yes.
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I keep trying but their server side security is to good for me to get at. That’s valuable data they have there!
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