The Liberal Party has been accused of conducting a "massive data harvesting operation" which collects highly personal information about people and their friends using Facebook. A website created by the Liberal Party, thechoice.liberal.org.au, asks users to log-in with their Facebook account to "see Australia's two possible futures". Once users proceed to see the "futures", they are then told that the Liberal Party would like to access (with permission) their Facebook profile, which includes information such as the user's name, profile picture, age range, gender, language and other public information. They are also told the Liberal Party will gain access to a list of the user's friends, their friends' likes and their friends' location. The user's friend is not asked whether this information should be divulged to the Liberal Party. http://www.theage.com.au/technology...data-harvesting-operation-20130906-2tant.html
Yes, this is not new with many Facebook made pages and has been reported in the media for years now. As you say the user is asked for permission for those personal items. You have a choice...just don't do it if you don't like info going to these people. Finally respect your friends too. THis is not difficult to do....not a big deal like the paper says.
Last ditch effort by the only newspaper in the country to remain in the Labor camp to smear some mud, perhaps?
This is 2013, newspapers are less widely read than fb and twitter. That "don't be a f**king idiot' campaign has had a lot more eyeballs than any single newspaper article. http://t.co/fT28efNNFS
