chuckwoww Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 "It's been a while since we've had an uproar over Facebook's handling of its users personal information, so we suppose the time is ripe. So cue the online outrage: Facebook announced today in a letter to Congress that the social-media platform is moving forward with plans to give third parties access to user information, such as phone numbers and home addresses. In a letter to Reps. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who both expressed concerns over Facebook's plan to make such data available, company officials reiterated their now-familiar pledge to leave it up to users to decide whether they want their personal contact information to go out to app developers and outside websites. Markey has previously said that "Facebook needs to protect the personal information of its users to ensure that Facebook doesn't become Phonebook." The company, meanwhile, sounds as though it has no plans to trim back its information-sharing ambitions." http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110301/ts_yblog_thelookout/facebook-will-soon-share-users-phone-numbers-and-addresses-with-3rd-parties Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 dont add your phone number and address setting up your account. so easy. retards continue adding them/moaning about privacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Quite right phil. They deserve to get deluged in junk-mail and spam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest lazyphil Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 typical glib comment from you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Phil is right. Read the last paragraph of the item..... ...as Facebook VP Elliot Schrage bluntly (if less colorfully) put things in the midst of a similar uproar last year: If you don't want Facebook to share your personal information, don't share your personal information with Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 OK. So we're all happy with the new Facebook policy. Only idiots need to worry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 dont add your phone number and address setting up your account. so easy. retards continue adding them/moaning about privacy. I just use lazyphil's phone number and address. Everyone should do the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Personally I have never understtod the fascination of Social Networking Sites such as Facebook and the likes of Myspace, Bebo, Geosites etc in the past. Don't get me wrong, I am no ludditte, I was using ICQ and mIRC in the early 80's during my Uni days to communicate with fellow students at other establishments and currently I do subscribe to "Linkedin" which is more of a real time resume update as compared to the banal crap posted on Facebook and the likes. Am I old, or am I just wised up? Kong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted March 1, 2011 Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 I just use lazyphil's phone number and address. Everyone should do the same. I use Chuck's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted March 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2011 Nevertheless millions of people are using it. It has become a huge social phenomenon. I think you are much too wise to get caught up in it Mekong. PM it to me Corinthian and I'll believe you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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