Facebook makes outside applications ask for user data

Europe slammed as unacceptable the changes by social networking website Facebook to its privacy settings, that would allow the profiles of its users to be made available to third party websites."It is unacceptable that the company fundamentally changed the default settings on its social-networking platform to the detriment of a user", the group of European data protections authorities said in a letter Wednesday.The EU group, known as the Article 29 Working Party, met on May 11-12 in Brussels to discuss safer networking principles.

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Photos, addresses, family ties, court documents, details from MySpace profiles -- the moment information is published online, it can be copied and re-posted, and often is. When Maya Rupert wrote an article frowning at several Southern states for officially celebrating Confederate History Month, Internet critics lined up to fire back. ¶ But this time, they arrived with more than harsh words.

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People post all sorts of status update messages to friends on Facebook, many of which they never intend to make public. But Storify, a social media curation tool, occasionally bring them to light, no matter the user's Facebook privacy settings. It also pulls in the person's photo, name and time stamp along with their private Facebook status message.