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Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

Peter — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:29:00 -0000

The default settings allow everyone to see our photos. The risk in one's privacy and security.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

Matt — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:27:55 -0000

I'm sorry to bring this up, but this post contains a serious error of dis-information. Facebook was NOT in the top ten, and placed tenth on the list. If you actually follow the link to the TRUSTe survey, the top ten are displayed as follows:

1 eBay
2 Verizon
3 U.S. Postal Service
4 Intuit
5 IBM
6 Nationwide
7 USAA
8 WebMD
9 Procter & Gamble
10 American Express

Unless American Express is a psuedo-name for Facebook, the claim in the above post is false. Facebook is only mentioned once, at the end of a sentence that reads "Facebook seems to demonstrate consumers’ growing comfort with doing business online.”

I wonder if the poster even read the press release, but just saw 'top ten' and 'facebook' on the same page...?

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

sebastiansanchez — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:33:26 -0000

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Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

fay colquhoun — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:38:32 -0000

i would like some one from face book on the 9/9/2009 under the name of anna colquhoun or anna knight and you will see were she has put fals allegation on your face book about me and even say fay i was talking to my solicitor today and was ask for you to look in to this its not nice when fals allegation with my name fay put on it i only hope you can help thank you fay colquhoun f.colquhoun@skymesh.com.au i hope to hear from some one asap thank you

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

jupiterthunder — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:33:24 -0000

I think that's mostly irrelevant since they conclude that FB is among the most trusted companies rather than concluding that it is among the most trustworthy. That is a significant difference. However, if, like you did, others don't notice that difference, then they might as well have stated a conclusion about trustworthiness.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

Mike Fitzpatrick — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:36:35 -0000

I wouldn;t trust them with the wind blown from my ass for them to make a whistle

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

EntrepreNerd — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:00:45 -0000

It only goes to show how little people care about privacy and how much they are willing to turn a blind eye to the lack of it. On the bright side, the more people lower their standards the more these companies will abuse our data.... Wait, if that a bright side?

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

CashSaver — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:49:42 -0000

im glad that one company chooses not to sell out information out unlike so many other business that give up the right to privacy the second they see hide or hair of the goverment.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

gwoodard — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:44:47 -0000

I spewed diet coke all over the place when I read this!

For just one example: If that's the case, what are all these "fan check" apps doing scattered about containing information FB says it does not make available?

And furthermore, most of their default settings are the opposite of what one would think would qualify them for such consideration!

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

Heather — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:44:03 -0000

I agree with you.

Personally, I find Facebook the LEAST trustworthy social networking site when it comes to personal privacy. The default settings allow friends of friends to see my photos, which is exactly why I do not post photos. I know that I can change privacy settings, but I find that confusing. I had blocked sharing of certain things, only to find out that certain applications were still allowed to use them. Maybe I'm just too old for this stuff, heh.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

jyoseph — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:38:00 -0000

I'm skeptical.

1. I'd like to know more about this two-stage survey.
2. Were the people taking the survey compensated?
3. How was the survey set up (the format)?
4. I'd also like to know who all was involved in the "expert panel".
5. Lastly and most importantly, what were the "leading consumer brands"? Sure Facebook is more trusted than PirateBay. So who were the companies being stacked up?

I'm bothered when I see vague statistics thrown out there and people just blindly believe. They don't ask questions. I know this isn't a big deal here, but it happens everywhere. In politics, on the job, etc etc.

Just because TRUSTe says it's so, doesn't make it so. Ask the 300 million (or whatever the number of users is up to now) users and not 6,000 unknown folks.

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

Joe Manna — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:24:49 -0000

They may be the most trusted, but they also contain the most personally-identifiable information. Right next to Google, a privacy breach would mean the ultimate risk in one's privacy and security.

I trust them though. They (hopefully) won't screw it up. :)

~Joe

Re: PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

Ways to Make Money — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:17:25 -0000

No wonder Facebook is the most trusted networking site in this online world