Did you see the latest proposed changes to the Facebook? They have a new feature called “Instant Personalization” that shares data with non-Facebook websites. My issue is that it is automatically set to “Allow.”

Or in other words, to protect my privacy and not have my content automatically shared with someone outside, I need to do something, I need to opt out. Not opt in to allow it. Read more…

Facebook is all the rage; we can share our personal content with all our friends, now that they are all there. We might feel protected because we made a conscious decision of who to “friend” and where we’d join. Facebook says our content is private and they do provide warnings when you post.

But, have you accepted an application lately? Did you notice what permissions you were giving to get the benefit of the application? After digging under the covers a little, I am thinking that Facebook looks like the largest data mining, contextual advertising platform in history.

And I wonder if it’s a tinder box about to go off. Maybe we should all be very careful… Read more…