Facebook as a Personal Data Store
From IIW
Issue/Topic: Facebook as PDS
Session: Tuesday 3D
Conference: IIW-11 November 2-4, Mountain View, Complete Notes Page
Convener: Joe (Switchbook)
Notes-taker(s): Ankit Kapasi
Tags:
Discussion notes:
Place where I share “my data” with service providers
Data provided from Facebook:
- Basic- name, friend list, gender, likes
- Extended
- Everyone data set
Permission to data set granted at first interaction
- By user
- By service
Instant Personalization – Facebook now moving towards opt-out instead of opt-in
- No permission ceremony
Authentication and then website uses OpenGraph API
FB did right
- Scaled quickly
- People submitted data without thinking about it (was it a trick?)
- Start with the .edu and connected within
- Allowing websites to cache the data, critical to website growth
Missing from FB platform:
- People don’t have ability to control terms of data use
- Incomplete and non-customizable (e.g., cant add your own public key)
- Tweak the permissions after time passes
- Open Standards / Substitutable (can now download copy of data)
- Verification of identity and specific data elements
- Setting per Vendor
- Stability in Privacy and other policies
- Terms for users on the 3rd party website
