Facebook Will Rat You Out
If you’re a college student, freak out now. Apparently Facebook will show your profile to anyone who asks to see it. That means those photos of you drunk at party x, y, and z, inappropriately touching members of the other sex, or passed out covered in residue are available to the people you don’t want to see them–bosses, parents, prospective employees. Yes, Facebook knows your dirty secrets, and it’s whispering.
The Facebook privacy policy (as VW) runs like this:
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Facebook service or using the Facebook name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
However, arbitrary disclosure doesn’t fall under this TOS. Facebook is utterly in the wrong in showing a Facebook profile to anyone sans subpoena.
University Filesharing Plan Bill
Yikes, read this BB article about a proposed bill that will force Universities to fight file sharing.
Stanford’s Facebook Apps
The applications that Stanford students built have been released in various forms. Cool, eh?
