Comments on: Facebook, Privacy, Public Opinion and Pitchforks

By: Passer By

Passer By — Thu, 13 May 2010 07:45:58 +0000

Whenever the gmail and your ip address topic comes, it’s somewhat missed that gmail *does* send your ip address for messages sent via smtp. They only omit it for webmail.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:56:15 +0000

This post was not meant to be an exhaustive list of facebook privacy problems.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:52:18 +0000

You forgot to mention the bug that let people see their friends chat windows and notifications via the “preview” feature within the privacy setting.

By: Arvind

Arvind — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:14:26 +0000

Valid point, and something I've written about before (and will address again soon). But my point here is that the outrage was based on false information (that private statuses appear on public pages). Also, while I agree that there's a difference between real-time search and the connections pages, I don't consider it "huge."

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:11:08 +0000

re. the FBI example : while a CS scientist would say nothing has changed, it reminds me of danay boyd’s thesis : just because people have something publicly available, that doesn’t mean they are comfortable with making it public. The new pages made publicly available information public – which is still a huge step.