Facebook's new features can secretly add apps

[SnoopZ]

For any Facebook users this maybe a bit worrying!

Facebook's new social features allow apps to be added to user profiles without notification being given to the user. Macworld discovered this new security concern and compared it to malware considering the secretive nature surrounding the way these apps are being added.

When a user goes to specific websites whilst logged into Facebook an app for the website is instantly added to the user profile. There is no prompt to the user, the Facebook window does not have to be open and you do not need to be signed into the website which adds the app. Currently there is no option to stop the app from being added in Facebook's privacy and application settings.

Source: Neowin.net

[xpod]

Just as bad as yesterdays security hole that allowed FB users to see their friends live chats.

[SB_07]

FB is becoming a joke.

[punky]

I hate Facebook but have to use it because everyone else does.

[v0id]

Originally Posted by punky

I hate Facebook but have to use it because everyone else does.

ditto, it's like everyone I know has forgotten what email is

[j52c]

I am not a Facebook user but I read this somewhere, it may have something to what this thread is refering to:-

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To opt out of Facebook’s new profile sharing is a multiple step process:


STEP 1: Go to the “Privacy Settings.� Go to “Applications and Web Sites.� Then go to “Instant Personalization Pilot Program,� and hit edit settings.

STEP 2: For all users there’s an automatic check in the box below, which allows Facebook to share your information with other web sites. You are automatically “opted in.� If you do not wish to share this information, uncheck the box.

STEP 3: Even after you’ve done this, it is not clear whether you need to “opt out� at the sites where Facebook is intending to share your information, like Pandora and Yelp, and soon many more sites. So you will want to look at the upper left hand corner of those sites to see whether those sites are recognizing your Facebook account and activity. Here again, you need to opt out.

But a word of caution, as Facebook concedes, your information may still be shared through your friends accounts, unless you block the application from these web sites.
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Hope this helps.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by punky

I hate Facebook but have to use it because everyone else does.

Not true at all my friend!!


If everyone went out in -20º weather with NO COAT ON and put water on them,would you also do it?

Heh,no FB is no good!! (The worst of all of them)

[SnoopZ]

I use Facebook all the time and enjoy it, but it's going down hill fast with privacy!