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Post Last Edit by hanyadiriku at 17-7-2009 09:40
nih i dpt dpd usrah yg my hubby fwd kat i... d tulis oleh ofismate nya..
((( SOCIAL NETWORKING tools and PRIVACY & DATA SECURITY )))
Privacy/Data Security are two issues that are always being linked to anything online.
But here I would like to share reported issues related to Facebook (FB), based on few articles that I browsed through.
This is because so many of my friends asking me, “do you have FB?”, “do you have FB?”. No, I don’t have one.
Note: My writing below is not to discredit Facebook or any other social networking tools but just to share some cautionary
writings over the matter so that we are aware of the risks that we are taking when sharing our personal data online.
image: Facebook
Just before that, J Don’t envy this guy above – he is the 26 yr old Mark Zuckerberg, who created FB when he was in Harvard and now is a
self-made billionaire – thanks to global 175 Million active FB users with quite significant support from Malaysians (around 1 Million active
facebookers (mar 2009 status)). Regional wise, Malaysia is reported to have the most Facebook users in Southeast Asia (as per Dec 2008 survey).
OK, back to the PRIVACY and SECURITY issue. The key points that I want to share from my readings on FB are:
1. The data/stories that we upload onto our FB sites are not private as we thought (even though we trigger the Privacy Setting), because there are
actually hidden third parties who are not in our “list of friends” having their ways to see and copy (steal) our contents (such as our details, our phone
numbers, address, our photos, etc. that we uploaded).
Few of many sources reporting the issue:
a. “Beware: Identity Thieves Harvest Social Networks”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/1 ... ocial_networks.html
by Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor, Jun 28, 2009 2:40 am
b. “Facebook applications could harvest private data says report”
http://www.gulfnews.com/technology/internet/10209873.html
Gulf News web report, Published: May 01, 2008, 16:05
2. How about the ownership of users’ contents? Well, other than possibility of being stolen by third party data thieves, our data could be used by
Facebook (the company) for any purposes because we agreed to that when we signed in to their license (or Terms of Services (TOS)). In other words,
anything you upload to Facebook can be used by them in any way they deem fit. They can even sublicense it if they want to. Below is the related part that
we agree on when we sign in:
(based on this article Source: http://consumerist.com/5150175/f ... our-content-forever )
“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense)
to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt,
create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or
the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and
(b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the
Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.”
3. We must be aware of any changes of terms that application owners like FB impose on users anytime they please without warning. This is what FB (the company)
did in Feb 2009 when they changed their TOS to widen their ownership of whatever users upload onto their servers. The changes allow them to own users’ contents
even after the users terminate their accounts with FB, as long as they want.
But after complains by many parties, they reverted back their original policy (which says ownership of contents to FB will expire after users terminate their accounts).
But still, the clause on the ownership by Facebook (in number 2 above) stays - as long as you’re using their site.
Source: http://consumerist.com/5150175/f ... our-content-forever
And lastly, I was triggered to share this issue after reading a news piece from CNN titled “Personal details of new UK spy chief on Facebook” 2 weeks ago,
and also found this article “Facebook: A secret harvest”
here http://www.techleader.co.za/anja ... k-a-secret-harvest/ that wrote
“… Ask yourself, among many other questions: Is what I am posting OK for my career, reputation and personal safety, and is my ID secure from fraud?
In other words, is it really worth playing the Facebook game?”
Take care and Have a nice day ahead. J |
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Post time 17-7-2009 09:24 AM
tapi semenjak dah join RIANz ni dah jadik favorite kaler....
