{"id":3688,"date":"2010-05-10T09:49:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2010-05-11T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T18:54:43","slug":"graphical-illustration-of-the-death-of-privacy-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/graphical-illustration-of-the-death-of-privacy-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphical illustration of the death of privacy on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt McKeon<\/a> has a very persuasive set of images, showing the extent of changes to your private information on Facebook between 2005 and last month:<\/p>\n

2005<\/strong>
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Compare that to the latest set of changes to the default Facebook privacy settings:<\/p>\n

April 2010<\/strong>
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Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60.<\/p>\n

However, Facebook hasn’t always managed its users’ data well. In the beginning, it restricted the visibility of a user’s personal information to just their friends and their “network” (college or school). Over the past couple of years, the default privacy settings for a Facebook user’s personal information have become more and more permissive. They’ve also changed how your personal information is classified several times, sometimes in a manner that has been confusing for their users. This has largely been part of Facebook’s effort to correlate, publish, and monetize their social graph: a massive database of entities and links that covers everything from where you live to the movies you like and the people you trust.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt McKeon has a very persuasive set of images, showing the extent of changes to your private information on Facebook between 2005 and last month: 2005 Compare that to the latest set of changes to the default Facebook privacy settings: April 2010 Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[167,391,154,217],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology","tag-baitandswitch","tag-facebook","tag-privacy","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}