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Hackers are weighing in on the Facebook privacy controversy with creations that help people strengthen privacy or empty profile pages at the world's leading social networking service. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) technology fellow Chris Conley showed off an arsenal of such applications at the infamous DefCon gathering, which kicked off Friday in Las Vegas. "They are needed because people don't have control of their privacy and don't really understand," Conley said after the presentation. "They give people options." A program written by Conley displays pictures, posts, or other profile data being accessed by applications at Facebook accounts. People can then see what personal information programs are gleaning from their pages. |
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Applications shared by Conley included a software tool that helps people change Facebook privacy settings using simple color coding to demystify the process. Other programs let people pack-up Facebook profile data in order to take it elsewhere or stop the social-networking service getting automated feedback about where members go elsewhere on the Internet. "The long-term goal is they should become obsolete because Facebook has addressed this in some way," Conley said. "We would like Facebook to be doing this." Conley's application, available online, at dotrights.org has been used by 150,000 people. |
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