Facebook Privacy Leak

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/10/18/facebook.apps.privacy/index.html?hpt=T2

I was on CNN and looking at the most recent articles and came across one about facebook, which I thought would be relevant and interesting for everyone to read, considering most of us in the class, if not all have a facebook account. Apparently, some applications, including one of the very popular apps, Farmville, has been reportedly sharing identifying information about users. I thought this was a huge problem because I know for myself personally, it never really crosses my mind that people could be stealing my information via facebook, but it is important for everyone to realize that there are risks out there. I think many of us tend to not associate risk with facebook because it has become so popularized in our society. Facebook addressed the issue saying the content has been exaggerated about can be, and has been shared with third parties. This is also relavent to our course because it is not uncommon that the media tends to exaggerate stories to make them more interesting and especially something like Facebook leaking information, could cause widespread public panic. Nevertheless, Facebook addressed the issue by adding two new security tools that seem extremely necessary. The first tool, allows a person to use a temporary password while accessing the site from a public computer. The second tool allows a user to check whether their account is being accessed somewhere else.  I think both of these tools are beneficial to increasing the saftey of  users information.
I know that I would most likely delete my Facebook account if I found out people were hacking into my account and stealing my information.

-Colleen