Facebook privacy changes are on the way again. Facebook is planning a change to its privacy policy to allow it to share your name, photo, friends list and public information with a list of third-party websites. The big problem with the new Facebook privacy plan? Facebook wants to make it automatic.
Facebook revealed the new Facebook privacy plans in a post by its deputy general counsel, Michael Richter, who said the changes are necessary to “make way for some exciting new products”.
After discussing sharing links on Facebook and the forthcoming Facebook location features, Richter detailed the plan to make Facebook users information available to a list of websites approved by Facebook.
Richter said the idea of Facebook partnering with other websites is to allow them to offer a “more personalized experience at the moment you visit the site”. The move is likely to be linked to Facebook plans for a Like button for external websites.
But like previous Facebook privacy changes, the feature sharing your details with other websites would be activated automatically and you would need to opt out to stop it.
Facebook says more privacy controls will be strengthened before the feature to share your information with other websites is activated but it has had privacy problems before.
The last set of Facebook privacy changes opened up the possibility that scammers would grab your profile information. But Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is on record as saying that privacy is “no longer the social norm”.
Do you trust Facebook to choose the right websites to share your profile information with?
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