Il servizio Places di Facebook non si può provare dall’Europa, per ora. Quindi vale la pena di leggere che cosa ne pensano gli americani che l’hanno provato. Per quanto riguarda la privacy c’è una certa dose di confusione. Come spesso succede. La questione è analizzata con attenzione da TechCrunch ed Electronic Frontier Foundation. Da leggere assolutamente. Si scopre che il sistema è disegnato per massimizzare la viralità di Places ma mantenere anche un certo controllo dalla parte degli utenti. Questo significa che le regole sono un po’ complicate:
“Turns out, there are three different stages of opting into the service. Let’s spell them out.
- Option one: You’ve explicitly opted into allowing people to tag you into Places. Any of your friends can do this. Pretty straightforward.
- Option two: You’ve braved the muddled waters of
Facebook’s privacy control panel and turned off Places entirely. You
can’t be tagged — if a friend does try to tag you in a Places post, your
name simply won’t show up in the post. - Option three: If you’ve never decided to ‘Allow’
your friends to tag you, but you haven’t blocked the Places feature
entirely, you’re in a sort of limbo. This is where the vast majority of
Facebook users in the US are right now. As soon as they get tagged for
the first time, they’ll get an email and a prompt on Facebook itself
asking them if they’d like to allow their friends to tag them at Places
in the future. Accepting this will allow any of your friends to tag you
unless you go into your privacy settings and cancel it (see Option
one).But even if you hit the “Not Now” button, you’ll still be tagged in
the relevant Places update. In fact, you’ll still be tagged even if you
haven’t even seen the prompt asking you to approve Places
tags. Facebook treats this as if you were tagged in a basic status
update so it will show upon your Wall
and your friends’ News Feeds — you just aren’t associated with whatever
Place your friend was tagging you into (i.e. if your friend visits the
venue’s Place page, they won’t see that you’ve previously checked in
there). The logic here is that your friends could manually tag you in a
normal status update anyway. Update:Facebook has clarified that it doesn’t show up on your wall.”
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