Even with STRICT privacy settings, Facebook STILL publishes a list of the pages you’ve “Liked” to the world

Try it. Go to http://zesty.ca/facebook/ and give it your Facebook ID. Then click through the various list of items… everything that you see here is viewable by a potential future employer, your parents, your ex’s, and your stalker neighbors.

Would you want a future employer seeing that you just became a fan of “picking boogers and eating them because they are salty”?

This security risk is brought to you by the kind folks at Facebook, who released a new API for their website (Graph API) that makes it much easier for developers to incorporate your identity into their pages.

Apparently this allows anyone with a Facebook account to view every event you’ve ever attended… including “Let’s get BLAZED ON 4/20, BABY!”

The more you know.

2 years ago on April 29th, 2010 at 6:10 pm | Permalink