I have never been a member, but visit Facebook pages of small businesses that are. If the privacy of non-members has been invaded, there ought to be hell to pay.
“If the privacy of non-members has been invaded, there ought to be hell to pay.”
They do have the technology to access your email account, such as your address book, without your consent. With that in mind, then once connected to Facebook they can probably access anything in your computer.
About 6 years ago I tried Farcebook for a couple weeks. When applying I was asked if I wanted to import my email address book so they could make them my friends (or whatever their excuse was). I denied them access. Once a member all my email contacts were shown as wanting to be my friends.
One in particular was an enemy, and when Farcebook had her name as a potential friend, I would delete it. It would be back the next day. The only way I could keep her name off was to delete it from my address book.
Keep in mind I never gave permission for them to access my email account. They never got the password. All they got was the address.
From then on I knew it was a data mining operation capable of doing just about anything. Maybe the NSA is learning a few tricks from them as well.