Facebook Privacy Policies are Bad, Part III:
by admin on May.13, 2010, under Facebook, privacy
I have been harping on this a lot lately, but every day my decision to divorce myself from Facebook is looking better and better:
Facebook’s Instant Personalization backfires already, thanks to Yelp security hole.
The gist is: due to both a bug in Yelp! and a bug in Facebook, a malicious website can gain access to your private Facebook information.
Still think the open web is a good thing?
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