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ikram — July 6, 2007 / 6:29 pm
James Massola from New Matilda decided to join a social networking service Facebook to find out what one actually does with it. Starting from the first registration page, he was asked for his full name, email address and the usual password and birth date questions. After confirming his decision to join the site, he was asked to provide his email address — and password — so that Facebook could search his address book for friends who were already registered. A small note promised that Facebook would not ‘email anyone without my permission, nor store my email and password.’
But then he found out that Facebook stored the information from the one-time trawl of my address book. If a person wants to have their name removed from the list of invitees from his address book, they have to email Facebook to request removal from the database.
There were also other things. In his last paragraph he wrote: “If you join up, be a bit picky about what you tell Facebook, and don’t let it scan your address book. Enjoy it, but keep it at arms length, and remember that it does track your data and web usage.”
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