On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 03:45:17PM -0800, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/04/calgary-airport-wifi-privacy.html > > If you want to use Wi-fi in Calgary airport, you have to give them access to > your > Facebook info. > > (Actually, it sounds like this is one option, the others being to pay for > hotspot > access.) > > I suspect that this is just Facebook trying to build their attempt at > becoming an > "identity provider": lots of sites now allow you to "log in" with Facebbok > credentials. It's probably turning up in news from Calgary because Canadian > privacy laws say you have to warn people that you are accessing information. > I > suspect it may be happening other places. > > Any Facebbok app, of course, is allowed to access *all* of your Facebook > information. There does seem to be a way to limit access of "remote" apps, > but I > don't know how effective that is. > Yeah, I don't see this going bad at all.
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