Follow me on Google+Sydney Morning Herald :: One morning this week, Facebook told Tim Dick a friend had used a dating application the night before, one called Are You Interested? It told not just him, but all those it recognises as his friends. His nocturnal love-seeking business was announced automatically, without Facebook checking that spreading that fact was OK with him, and without checking it was true.
It wasn't. He was not using it, but deleting an app he found irritating. Facebook's new automatic settings are not concerned with niceties such as intention; he ''used'' it, and the news was spread anyway.
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