Comments on: Personal Privacy Impact Assessments for Facebook http://www.tuesdaynight.org/2009/07/17/personal-privacy-impact-assessments-for-facebook.html spots of thoughts: ian glazer and friends rant, rave and ruminate Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Privacy Mirror: A privacy experiment in Facebook @ ian glazer's tuesdaynight http://www.tuesdaynight.org/2009/07/17/personal-privacy-impact-assessments-for-facebook.html/comment-page-1#comment-15408 Privacy Mirror: A privacy experiment in Facebook @ ian glazer's tuesdaynight Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:25:26 +0000 http://www.tuesdaynight.org/?p=574#comment-15408 [...] Mirror: A privacy experiment in Facebook By Ian Glazer, on July 22nd, 2009 As I previously blogged, I read Canada’s Assistant Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s findings on Facebook and it [...] [...] Mirror: A privacy experiment in Facebook By Ian Glazer, on July 22nd, 2009 As I previously blogged, I read Canada’s Assistant Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham’s findings on Facebook and it [...]

]]> By: Ian Glazer http://www.tuesdaynight.org/2009/07/17/personal-privacy-impact-assessments-for-facebook.html/comment-page-1#comment-15404 Ian Glazer Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:44:06 +0000 http://www.tuesdaynight.org/?p=574#comment-15404 I thought about bringing that very point up. I'd love to see FB require developers to register a manifest which includes which data elements a developer is using. But, from a FB perspective, that would slow down adoption and application development. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it is damn hard to stuff back in. In the meantime, I'm half considering writing a Facebook application to test my own privacy settings. Might be worth a laugh. I thought about bringing that very point up. I’d love to see FB require developers to register a manifest which includes which data elements a developer is using. But, from a FB perspective, that would slow down adoption and application development. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it is damn hard to stuff back in.

In the meantime, I’m half considering writing a Facebook application to test my own privacy settings. Might be worth a laugh.

]]> By: Christopher Parsons http://www.tuesdaynight.org/2009/07/17/personal-privacy-impact-assessments-for-facebook.html/comment-page-1#comment-15403 Christopher Parsons Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:40 +0000 http://www.tuesdaynight.org/?p=574#comment-15403 Sounds like an interesting idea, though I expect that something like this would be against FB's interests in getting people to contribute as much personal data as possible to the site. While the OPC's report began to crack down on third-party developers, I'd wish they'd gone a step further and demanded that FB start actually regulating how third-parties informed users of data usage habits (i.e. how data could be used, where it is stored, retention periods, etc). In effect, I'd love to see FB have to regulate third-party developers' data according to the same recommendations that the OPC offered for how FB itself regulated the data that they controlled. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening until regulators look at companies like FB as ecosystem developers that should be responsible for the actions of the ecosystem, as opposed to developers that just provide a data-mining playground for third-parties. Sounds like an interesting idea, though I expect that something like this would be against FB’s interests in getting people to contribute as much personal data as possible to the site. While the OPC’s report began to crack down on third-party developers, I’d wish they’d gone a step further and demanded that FB start actually regulating how third-parties informed users of data usage habits (i.e. how data could be used, where it is stored, retention periods, etc). In effect, I’d love to see FB have to regulate third-party developers’ data according to the same recommendations that the OPC offered for how FB itself regulated the data that they controlled. Unfortunately, I don’t see this happening until regulators look at companies like FB as ecosystem developers that should be responsible for the actions of the ecosystem, as opposed to developers that just provide a data-mining playground for third-parties.

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