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January 28, 2009

Facebook and the Price of Privacy

Filed under: Academic,Technology — Jed @ 9:19 am

Facebook Conference :: Facebook Connect

I have an article running on gnovis right now about privacy, Facebook, and its third-party partners. Facebook has a new system called “Facebook Connect” which is attempting to do a number of interesting things on the internet, but with the history of Beacon’s privacy debacle haunting Facebook’s reputation, it will be interesting to see if Facebook can expand into other services on the net.

This leaves me with the following question: What is the price of our privacy? Or, more to the point, when do we decide that our privacy is valuable? No one seems to mind the potential privacy issues surrounding social networking sites until something horrible like Beacon happens. So who is responsible for our privacy? And how can Facebook and its partners make sure that these mistakes don’t happen again?

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gnovis Journal – Facebook and the Price of Privacy


18 Responses to “Facebook and the Price of Privacy”

  1. Brian Says:

    I have a Facebook policy to protect my privacy, and I may be a bit paranoid. The policy is: never install applications. It’s hard because friends often invite me to various apps and I always feel bad about pressing the “Ignore” button. The price: guilt or worry about the message I’m sending (or not sending)… missing something entertaining or a moment of camaraderie.

    Hmm. It felt good to write that.

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