http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/ The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News and More! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:49:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-10399 Frank Tue, 20 May 2008 13:37:20 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-10399 Maybe it's BOTH business and privacy. Information wants to be free? Phooey - personal information wants to be controlled - and preferably by the individual. As a Facebook user with a profile, why shouldn't I be able to exercise some control over other users' export, reuse and (mis)use of my personal information? As I understand it, Facebook's Friend Connect promises to wrap and enforce my privacy preferences around my personal data when it gets siphoned off the Facebook platform. Does Google Friend Connect do this? Assuring users' trust is also a business strategy too. Maybe it’s BOTH business and privacy. Information wants to be free? Phooey - personal information wants to be controlled - and preferably by the individual. As a Facebook user with a profile, why shouldn’t I be able to exercise some control over other users’ export, reuse and (mis)use of my personal information? As I understand it, Facebook’s Friend Connect promises to wrap and enforce my privacy preferences around my personal data when it gets siphoned off the Facebook platform. Does Google Friend Connect do this? Assuring users’ trust is also a business strategy too.

]]> http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-13449 Frank Tue, 20 May 2008 13:37:20 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-13449 Maybe it's BOTH business and privacy. Information wants to be free? Phooey - personal information wants to be controlled - and preferably by the individual. As a Facebook user with a profile, why shouldn't I be able to exercise some control over other users' export, reuse and (mis)use of my personal information? As I understand it, Facebook's Friend Connect promises to wrap and enforce my privacy preferences around my personal data when it gets siphoned off the Facebook platform. Does Google Friend Connect do this? Assuring users' trust is also a business strategy too. Maybe it’s BOTH business and privacy. Information wants to be free? Phooey - personal information wants to be controlled - and preferably by the individual. As a Facebook user with a profile, why shouldn’t I be able to exercise some control over other users’ export, reuse and (mis)use of my personal information? As I understand it, Facebook’s Friend Connect promises to wrap and enforce my privacy preferences around my personal data when it gets siphoned off the Facebook platform. Does Google Friend Connect do this? Assuring users’ trust is also a business strategy too.

]]> http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-10394 francine hardaway Tue, 20 May 2008 00:49:42 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-10394 Have you heard the rumor about MSFT buying YHOO and then Facebook? If that was in progress, perhaps that's why they turned off Google. Have you heard the rumor about MSFT buying YHOO and then Facebook? If that was in progress, perhaps that’s why they turned off Google.

]]> http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-13448 francine hardaway Tue, 20 May 2008 00:49:42 +0000 http://www.allfacebook.com/2008/05/its-business-not-privacy/#comment-13448 Have you heard the rumor about MSFT buying YHOO and then Facebook? If that was in progress, perhaps that's why they turned off Google. Have you heard the rumor about MSFT buying YHOO and then Facebook? If that was in progress, perhaps that’s why they turned off Google.

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