This is scary stuff; downright frightening to anyone who cares about personal security. As the writer leads you through the world of “Dark Stalking” on Facebook, remember that this bit of geeky reporting really boils down to one thing: you’re already giving away much more information about yourself than you realize! The author creates a script to search for information about friends who attend a specific event. What does he get back?
…The results were disturbing. I didn’t just get back future events my friends were attending. I got everything they had been invited to: past and present, attending or not. I didn’t sleep well that night. I didn’t expect Facebook to share past event info. I didn’t expect it to share info when people had declined those events. I haven’t found any way of retrieving friends’ past events using Facebook’s website, but using FQL made it easy. Somehow, implicitly, I thought old events would fade away, only viewable to those who already knew about them. I didn’t expect them to […]
Now, you should begin to understand why Clicknation wants to help you CONTROL the information flow between you and those who want to know more about you!
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