Understanding Your Facebook Apps: Your Privacy Depends On It
When you're on the move, exploring various sites -- maybe for research reasons, maybe just for fun -- you're often offered the chance to log in via your Facebook account, rather than creating a whole new account with a site you may never visit again. Sounds simple enough, right? But as with most things that seem too good to be true, there are hidden dangers that may make this convenience more trouble than it's worth, allowing applications creepy access.
When you’re on the move, exploring various sites — maybe for research reasons, maybe just for fun — you’re often offered the chance to log in via your Facebook account, rather than creating a whole new account with a site you may never visit again. Sounds simple enough, right? But as with most things that seem too good to be true, there are hidden dangers that may make this convenience more trouble than it’s worth, allowing applications creepy access.
Go to your settings on Facebook, click on apps, and chances are that you’ll find a bunch of sites there that you can’t remember even visiting, which are now publicly bookmarked — because you logged into those remote sites using your Facebook account.
Remember?
Of course not.
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