The document discusses various privacy concerns related to Facebook, including its tracking practices and the impact of its new privacy policy on users. It also highlights the differences between Facebook and MySpace, the rise of unauthorized data selling, and attempts by lawmakers to establish new guidelines for online privacy. Users have reported negative experiences with the platform despite its positive initial appeal, and Facebook is working to improve security measures with options such as HTTPS.

1. social-networking sites
In each case, Facebook quickly patched the holes, typically within hours of their discovery. Facebook
is often compared to MySpace but one significant difference between the two sites is the level of
customization. USocial received a cease-and-desist letter from Facebook and has stopped selling
friends.
The group has launched our-policy.org to suggest improvements to the new policy, which they saw
as a backdrop for privacy on Facebook. 77 The most severe could be a complaint that claims that the
privacy policy, and the consent to the privacy policy is void under European laws.
Next to that, the increasing number of messages and social relationships embedded in SNS also
increases the amount of social information demanding a reaction from SNS users. 94 Many people
who started using Facebook for positive purposes or with positive expectations have found that the
website has negatively impacted their lives. According to the article, the United States Congress and
the world wide web consortium are attempting to set new guidelines to deal with privacy concerns.
Facebook relies on tracking cookies to keep track of pages visited by more than 800 million
individuals. An article published by USA Today claimed that Facebook has created a web log of
pages visited both by its members and by others. The new privacy policy took effect on the same
day.
That's why we've developed a number of complex systems that operate behind the scenes to keep
you secure on Facebook. The message includes instructions for overcoming this supposed problem.
Circulating Facebook message warns that, due to the new "Graphic App", material posted on
Facebook is no longer private and can be seen by anyone. Circulating message claims that, due to its
rules on nudity, Facebook keeps removing an image showing the intricately tattooed chest of a
breast cancer survivor who had a double mastectomy.
6 A "connection" is created when a user clicks a "Like" button for a product or service, either on
Facebook itself or an external site. They demonstrated that anyone could get access to information
saved to a Facebook profile, even if the information was not intended to be made public.
40 As of 2013 update , Facebook gives users the options to deactivate or delete their accounts. 37
Facebook's privacy settings, however, allow users to block their profiles from search engines. 21
Since users can post anything they want, this allowed people to post things that could target certain
groups of people or abuse other users through other means. 20 This change made it impossible for
users to control what activities are published on their walls (and consequently the public news feed).
18 According to subsequent news articles, members have widely regarded the additional privacy
options as an acceptable compromise. In those cases, Facebook does not associate the hack a
facebook account with greasemonkey information with any individual user account, and deletes the
data as well.
Instead of showing you a traditional captcha on Facebook, one of the ways we may help verify your
identity is through social authentication. We hope to offer HTTPS as a default whenever you are
using Facebook sometime in the future. In addition, some Facebook features, including many third-
party applications, are not currently supported in HTTPS. Starting today we'll provide you with the
ability to experience Facebook entirely over HTTPS. This indicates that your browser is using a

2. secure connection ("HTTPS") to communicate with the website and ensure that the information you
send remains private.
Currently the group claims that Facebook holds at least 84 data categories about every user. 74
Despite the amount of information given, the group claimed that Facebook did not give them all of
its data. 59 This hole took Facebook two and a half weeks to fix. She used the hole to import custom
CSS and demonstrate how the platform could be used to violate privacy rules or create a worm.
If a Facebook user clicks 'No, thanks' on the partner site notification, Facebook does not use the
data and deletes it from its servers. Because the code that was released powers only Facebook user
interface, it offers no useful insight into the inner workings of Facebook. A small fraction of the code
that displays Facebook web pages was exposed to a small number of users due to a single
misconfigured web server that was fixed immediately. Facebook treats such relationships as public
information, and the user's identity may be displayed on the Facebook page of the product or
service.