Posted on 01/18/2011 3:56:34 AM PST by markomalley
Facebook has disabled a new feature which allowed third party companies access to people’s personal contact details, after negative user feedback and warnings from security experts.
The company, which turned on the new feature over the weekend, admitted in a blog post published this morning that Facebook “could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data”.
The post said: “On Friday, we expanded the information you are able to share with external websites and applications to include your address and mobile number…Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data. We agree, and we are making changes to help ensure you only share this information when you intend to do so. We’ll be working to launch these updates as soon as possible, and will be temporarily disabling this feature until those changes are ready. We look forward to re-enabling this improved feature in the next few weeks.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Yes. And certain companies DO NOT buy ad time during the super bowl because it's the wrong audience!
I don’t see how the Edmund Burke page renders that “absurd”.
Craig Johnson obama is a nazi
September 4, 2009 at 11:31am · Report
Logan Yeakel No, obama is a socialist/nationalist.
March 6, 2010 at 6:22pm · Report
James Stroh Craig Johnson is a racist and a cyber-troll.
April 27, 2010 at 8:47pm ·
Mike Workman No, Obama is the 44th President of the United States! ;^)
August 14, 2010 at 12:04am ·
Oh yeah. That's really great!
Some silly comments on the Edmund Burke page does not render the medium absurd. Sarah has almost 1000 times as many people subscribed as Burke
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=sarah%20palin&init=quick&tas=0.6892324799157106&ref=ts#!/sarahpalin
And is getting the message out plenty fine.
This guy is on facebook too.
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama
Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea to link FR.
There’s this on there.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Republic/141344792800
Yeah great. The organic discussion page has evolved 8 subjects....about Bob Dylan and a National Stasi under the bed.
Sure makes us look like a bunch of koooks.
Displaying all 8 topics.
Bob Dylan’s Lawyer Explodes
1 post. Created on December 28, 2010 at 1:11pm
Latest post by James
Posted on December 28, 2010 at 1:11pm
The Bob Dylan Scandal
2 posts. Created on October 27, 2010 at 7:55pm
Latest post by Jesse
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 10:53pm
Outage
5 posts. Created on September 3, 2010 at 12:56pm
Latest post by Karmann
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:46pm
Outage on Wednesday 6/23/2010
1 post. Created on June 23, 2010 at 6:15pm
Latest post by Star
Posted on June 23, 2010 at 6:15pm
Site down?
13 posts. Created on January 21, 2010 at 6:22pm
Latest post by Gail
Posted on June 22, 2010 at 5:12pm
Could you become a target of the American Stasi and be put under conspicuous surveillance harassment?
1 post. Created on May 26, 2010 at 6:17pm
Latest post by Bonnie
Posted on May 26, 2010 at 6:17pm
We Now Have A Nationwide Stasi in America
1 post. Created on April 17, 2010 at 10:15pm
Latest post by Bonnie
Posted on April 17, 2010 at 10:15pm
ObamaCare
2 posts. Created on December 10, 2009 at 9:02am
Latest post by Lori
Posted on December 14, 2009 at 7:45am
Barack is getting his message out. Like it or not. The FR page on FB is kind of pointless since we do our discussing here, but the ability to draw people from FB to here would be valuable, whether you’re smart enough to see it or not.
LOL. Nice touch.
And THAT is exactly the kind of attitude that a great ad-man for the superbowl would use, or you could use as a header on FreeRepublic's facebook page!
"HEY. Come over here and discuss smart things if you're smart enough to agree with me!"
BTW...I want to "like" this thread. Where is that "f" button at? Hmmm. Where did it go? LOL.
They got rid of the button for whatever reason, probably technical it did slow down page load, but that doesn’t mean the idea is innately flawed. Issues happen, FB IS a valuable tool for anybody with a message, period. Anything with an audience of 2 entire America’s is worth trying to exploit, Barack knows it, Sarah knows it, AT&T knows it, Intel knows it, fairtax.org knows it. You should be able to figure it out. But like many here you have a knee jerk anti-FB mentality that keeps you from seeing the painfully obvious truth.
Facebook does all sorts of strange things with cookies, etc. I'd rather they not have ANY access to my computer.
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