I agree, but the prevalence of FB on the HN front page is a little suspect. There have been at least 10 negative FB posts on HN in the past couple days. I think someone's got an axe to grind...
I wasn't aware of anything else specific that was bending the privacy policy to the limit? Anyone care to fill me in on the TL;DR version?
(the social graph, as far as I saw, obeys your privacy settings)
Constantly changing what is private and what is public.
Getting upset at someone using the data that they provide to the public for research purposes.
There is more.
Simply, no. There is no check you can write to facebook to in order to get a particular facebook user's, or set of users', information.
- 3rd parties (app developers, Facebook Connect users, etc.) no longer have a 24hr limit on storing user data
- Open Graph basically means your Facebook info has the potential to be plastered all over the web if you're browsing without being logged out of Facebook
Facebook is acting, people are re-acting. It's only natural that facebook should come under some scrutiny, for one they're huge, secondly they behave like a bull in a china shop with respect to other peoples privacy.
You've been a HN member for all of three months and 10 days, I think it is a little early to start accusing people here of being in some kind of conspiracy against facebook.
There also is no conspiracy against apple, google, microsoft or any other big name company or website.
There will be a plenty of both sensible and silly articles targeting Facebook.