That brings up an interesting point. A friend of mine was "forced" into signing up to facebook because her friend created an account for her that included embarrassing, untrue comments requiring her to sign in and actually change her information and, to some extent, revealing more information than she wanted to. Since there are no ways to completely delete accounts (that I am aware of after reading posts) as well as verify the legitimacy of people signing up, I wonder how many people are forcibly caught in the facebook web of data collection.
I have to agree with Kelly, you post the information on the basis that others will see it. Obviously Facebook is going to sell the information available on the website as well as post, I am assuming here, user data driven ads. They are a corporation out to make money, Facebook isn't in the business of helping people find friends. However, they are definitely not the first company to do this, have to love that Air Miles card, so there should not be that big of an uproar when APIs allow developers access to all your information. Hopefully they follow their own privacy scheme and restricted content is restricted to the APIs as well when you consider the potential for misuse. Knowledge is power and with all these contests trying to advocate people to join, i.e. most Facebook users from a city, I can't see why people haven't already caught on to what is trying to be done. Anyways, I just wonder, if Facebook does actually not delete a person's information when requested, as per Canadian law, are there any legal actions one can take?
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That brings up an interesting point. A friend of mine was "forced" into signing up to facebook because her friend created an account for her that included embarrassing, untrue comments requiring her to sign in and actually change her information and, to some extent, revealing more information than she wanted to. Since there are no ways to completely delete accounts (that I am aware of after reading posts) as well as verify the legitimacy of people signing up, I wonder how many people are forcibly caught in the facebook web of data collection.
I have to agree with Kelly, you post the information on the basis that others will see it. Obviously Facebook is going to sell the information available on the website as well as post, I am assuming here, user data driven ads. They are a corporation out to make money, Facebook isn't in the business of helping people find friends. However, they are definitely not the first company to do this, have to love that Air Miles card, so there should not be that big of an uproar when APIs allow developers access to all your information. Hopefully they follow their own privacy scheme and restricted content is restricted to the APIs as well when you consider the potential for misuse. Knowledge is power and with all these contests trying to advocate people to join, i.e. most Facebook users from a city, I can't see why people haven't already caught on to what is trying to be done. Anyways, I just wonder, if Facebook does actually not delete a person's information when requested, as per Canadian law, are there any legal actions one can take?