Walt Mossberg tests a new location-based network from Facebook that he says is well-designed and has privacy controls that will make it appeal to many of the social network's users
“Your friends’ apps may be able to access information about your most recent check-in by default as soon as you start using Places,” the organization said. “Even if you’ve already gone through your settings to limit the info that apps can access, you should do it again — you may find that you’ve been defaulted into sharing your location info with apps.”
There are now matters of concern reminiscent of the Facebook privacy debacle that erupted a few months ago after the company revised its platform that encouraged members to make personal details accessible more broadly on the Internet. After a string of frustrations, the company simplified its privacy settings in an effort to make the controls easier to navigate. See Jenna Wortham's NYTimes article of August 19th 2010.
Walt Mossberg tests a new location-based network from Facebook that he says is well-designed and has privacy controls that will make it appeal to many of the social network's users
ReplyDelete“Your friends’ apps may be able to access information about your most recent check-in by default as soon as you start using Places,” the organization said. “Even if you’ve already gone through your settings to limit the info that apps can access, you should do it again — you may find that you’ve been defaulted into sharing your location info with apps.”
ReplyDeleteThere are now matters of concern reminiscent of the Facebook privacy debacle that erupted a few months ago after the company revised its platform that encouraged members to make personal details accessible more broadly on the Internet. After a string of frustrations, the company simplified its privacy settings in an effort to make the controls easier to navigate. See Jenna Wortham's NYTimes article of August 19th 2010.
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