If you engage in applications from facebook, then YES you are allowing them to spy on things about your friends even if their profiles are private.
Recently I saw someone pass this around - http://en.meow-share.com/...
Out of curiosity, I pretended to play along up to a point, just to check to see if I was right.
I was right!
To engage in applications, you give them permission to see parts of your profile and activity on Facebook. In this case, the application recognized me as being a friend of the person. It KNEW MY NAME, because of course I clicked the link shared by my friend. This is what it from there on collected from her page, as well as would have collected from MY page if I had continued:
MeowShare will receive: your public profile, friend list, email address, timeline posts, birthday, photos and likes
Now, think about this, say you play along with this application, and then post things to your friends or about your friends, family or anyone! this application now has the right you have granted them to collect, data mine and share for profit anything you do on your page that it has said it would. Even you liking something I post on my page will give them the information about what I posted!
SO PLEASE, TO MY FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK, PLEASE, DON'T PUT MY INFORMATION AT RISK!
The worse part is, I have no idea how many applications on Facebook have already gleaned information about me because friends participated.
Facebook isn't the only network site that has applications that do this. And because of the privacy breach, TeamNetworks.Net will never have an application allowed to interact with our site unless we make it ourselves. We don't datamine! Never have, never will.
PLEASE STOP AND CONSIDER OTHERS BEFORE ENGAGING IN APPLICATIONS THAT WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR SOCIAL NETWORKS!
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