You may have recently received posts from your Facebook friends that look something like this "Between today and tomorrow, the New FB Privacy setting called "Instant Personalization" goes into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-FB sites & it is automatically set to "Enabled". Go to Account>Privacy Settings>Apps & Websites>Instant Personalization>edit settings & uncheck "Enable". BTW If your friends don't do this, they will be sharing info about you as well. Please copy and repost."
You may have received a similar message in Oct 2010. Confused and wondering, exactly who is able to access your personal information on Facebook? You're not alone and even Congress is asking Facebook for transparency and an explanation.
CNN reported today that a letter was sent to Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook from two co-chairs of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus asking Facebook to reveal secrets about Facebook's privacy policy that been changed frequently as of late. The letter gave Facebook 15 business days to respond to the inquiry.
Can you blame the Caucus for wanting some answers for the American public? This inquiry follows Facebook's recent announcement - and postponement - of a plan to make the addresses and cell phone numbers of its users available to third-party websites and application developers (apps).
"Please explain why Facebook, while previously acknowledging in its letter to us that sharing a
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