Facebook Privacy - Not Really

Spylogic has a pretty disturbing article on Facebook's use of a new API to share users public information with other websites such as Pandora and Microsoft Docs among many others to join I'm sure.

What this makes this even more scary is that developers can hold onto your data forever whereas before it was limited to 24 hours. George Orwell's 1984 does not sound too crazy after all even in 2010. Take the example below; if you copy and paste the URL into your web browser and replace the string, 'jandrusk' with the first part of your Facebook ID you will see some general information about your Facebook account. Not a big deal until you realize you don't even need to be logged onto Facebook to acquire this information! That means anyone on the trustworthy Internet can pull this information.

Evil Facebook Query

So the bottom line is if your concerned about privacy on the Internet you better off just going to be communicating on stones or papyrus paper. Let the reader beware.