YourOpenBook.org Demonstrates Facebook’s Privacy Problems

YourOpenBook.org is a new site that demonstrates some of the serious issues with Facebook’s privacy settings:

…this is perhaps the most graphic illustration ever of Facebook’s privacy problems. Making use of a public programming interface that Facebook released a few weeks ago, three programmers in San Francisco wrote Openbook, a website that searches Facebook profiles for — well, for anything you want.

For example, here is a list of people broadcasting information about rectal exams on Facebook. It’s unlikely that all of these people know that they are broadcasting so much information to the   permanent public record.

Via Mother Jones.

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