One more reason to NEVER put your Info Online

[Zedicus]

http://valleywag.com/tech/your-priv...oyer-access-to-her-private-profile-323882.php

Last month we told you that Facebook employees can see your profile even if it is private. Now we hear that they are willing to share your private profile with your boss. All he has to do is ask. A poster on the AR-15 Forums, a firearms-enthusiast website, says her bosses asked Facebook for permission to see her profile -- which is normally set to private for everyone but her friends -- through something called Administrators Access. (That may be the same internal feature, also known as "super," we wrote about earlier.)

Facebook's privacy policy has this to say:

We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Facebook service or using the Facebook name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.

The poster had pictures of himself with his firearms -- which, though legal and taken on the employee's own time, the company was concerned about. Perhaps Facebook was trying to "prevent imminent bodily harm?"

Think Facebook might be helping your employer out with a glimpse of your private profile? Drop us a line.

 

[PILMAN]

I'm going to cancel my facebook account.

 

[The Cavalry]

The opportunity for counterintelligence is worth considering.

Set your profile to read "I like bunnies, candy canes, feeding the poor, housing the homeless, and wishing for world peace." Nobody that you want to see it will see it, only those you don't want.

 

[ExSoldier]

A friend of mine is a Christian missionary in Romania with his family. He has a FACE BOOK account and uses it to keep all his friends back in the States aware of how they're doing. He wanted me to sign up for face book and become part of his buddy list or something. Personally being a high school teacher I think that any male aged 40 or above (I'm 50) with such an account on face book or MYSPACE is a potential pedophile. Just MY opinion. But I'll never have something like that. This just reinforces that belief.

 

[JWarren]

Exsoldier wrote:

Personally being a high school teacher I think that any male aged 40 or above (I'm 50) with such an account on face book or MYSPACE is a potential pedophile.

I remember watching an episode of The Drew Carey Show that still cracks me up if I think about it. You just made me remember it again.

One of his friends asked Drew why he didn't subscribe to any "Adult" channels on cable. He responded:

"I can't. I like the Cartoon Network, and I heard that if you subscribe to it AND Playboy TV, your name goes on a Government List."


-- John

 

[Oneofsix]

[QUOTE Personally being a high school teacher I think that any male aged 40 or above (I'm 50) with such an account on face book or MYSPACE is a potential pedophile.[/QUOTE]
While I agree that the potential for abuse is there, you're painting with a pretty broad brush.
I'm sure that I'm the exception, but Myspace is how I was able to reconnect with my 22 yr old son since his mother cut me from his life when he was 8. And I keep up with what both of my daughters and my other son do through there, as they have the stupid tendency to broadcast things online that they won't tell me in person.
My youngest is 17, guess by your logic that makes me a pedophile....

 

[Master Blaster]

Aren't you more concerned that being a male and a high school teacher that some one may think the same thing??

How about a scoutmaster , or a soccer coach???

Your actions are what make you what you are.

 

[Andrewsky]

I just changed a few things on my facebook profile.

I am now "Very Liberal," not "Libertarian." My interests are "World Peace" and "Non violence."

My religious views are "I want everyone to be comfortable in what they believe in."

LOL.

 

[sacp81170a]

One of the MANY reasons I don't post under my real name. It's far too easy to simply Google someone's name and come up with all sorts of stuff. I don't have any reason to worry right now, but who knows about 10 years or 20 years from now? The Internet is not only pervasive, it's permanent once the information leaves your control... Food for thought.

Y'all who've changed your Facebook accounts, that's great, but somewhere out there in cyberspace is a cached page with your info on it just the way it was when you input it and hit "Save".

 

[Alan Fud]

What's facebook?

 

[Coronach]

This is only tangentially related to guns.

Closed.