If they actually activate this, I'll cancel my Facebook account

[nancylebov]

##Massive Correction## It looks like there's nothing there at all. I should probably not be the first to sound the alarm on this sort of thing.

Correction:The current system is opt-in. However, I'm still concerned that Facebook will switch it to opt-out, but there's less current reason for concern than I was feeling.

Facebook is thinking about aps that will track and possibly post your browser activity.

I'm not the most private person on the web. I don't post about everything in my life, but I do post under my own name.

I've only made a little use of facebook, but there are people there that I know and comment to, or am glad to see how they're doing.

Posting what I'm doing on line without my explicit choice is too much.

Comments

[whc.livejournal.com]

I find Diaspora to be very creepy. Their privacy statement boils down to "Trust us to keep things private"

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Functionally, for me as a naive user, that's true of all software companies and online services I have dealings with.

...is that not what Google and Facebook say as well? How is their maintenance of privacy policed? Do they disclose what information they're gathering and using?

Sorry, I'm not necessarily looking for an interminable web forum or general link to the Concerned Netizens or whatever, here; I'm asking a naive question that I haven't taken the time to research myself.

[whc.livejournal.com]

I guess the difference for me is that facebook doesn't claim to be private, so I hold them to a lower standard. I haven't really looked at google's privacy aspects, since I don't use them for anything other than searches.