How to stop your friends' Facebook apps from accessing *your* private information

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Many internet users are wary of sharing their personal information willy-nilly with the world, but did you know that sometimes it's your friends who might be unwittingly passing your private details on?

Take Facebook, for instance.

You might believe that you have carefully controlled what people you choose to share your photos and personal information with on the social network. And maybe you're really careful about what third-party Facebook applications you allow to have access to personal details such as your birthday, your status updates and educational and work history.

How to stop your friends? Facebook apps from accessing *your* private information |

 

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[h=1]Facebook Home isn't where your privacy is[/h]

When Mark Zuckerberg and friends debuted Facebook Home yesterday, they downplayed the ever-growing importance your data has for the company. While the Facebook-obsessed may love Home, chances are your privacy won't feel welcome at all.

Facebook has earned a reputation for developing new products and features that are respectful of user privacy, and then slowly, sometimes with great subtlety and sometimes with mastodon-like lumbering, walking those policies back to a decidedly less-respectful state.

Facebook Home isn't where your privacy is | Security & Privacy - CNET News