Hacker News Reader

CNN doesn't get any of your Facebook data. It's an iframe hosted on Facebook. That HN user wants people to know that he likes that article.

(Your reaction is partially justified due to the existence of Instant Personalization on Yelp, Pandora, and Docs, which does share information without your consent.)

View on HN

True, CNN doesn't get your Facebook data directly, but if FB automatically creates a connection and CNN gets added to your interest then, if i have understood correctly, that network can see at least basic info about you.

That was a bug that I believe has been fixed. Connections should never be made automatically.

An iframe is an implementation detail, when I'm wearing my 'user' hat I see stuff on CNN that shouldn't be there. Whether it is technically hosted elsewhere is of interest but to a user it probably does not matter much.

I agree that it appears that Facebook may be sharing data without users' approval. I was just pointing out that they aren't in this case.

I wonder how normal people respond when they see that.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com