Software, Software Development and other Atrocities

The other day I googled my name. Most of the hits I got were expected. Information about me which I knew was searchable, because I had made the decision to make that data public previously. Some hits were from data aggregators showing profiles made up with data taken from various other websites. All of these were wrong of course having taken data without my consent (although that data are public I haven't agreed for them to be used by another website) and without me verifying its accuracy and quality. These aggregators mix data that is mine with data from people with similar names. The result is of course an unreliable and unethical source of information. This isn't good, is it? Anyway, even if I don't like this I was kind of expecting this kind of links.

There was however one hit (on the 5th page) which was completely unexpected. It was a link to a Facebook Music Application Page saying that I had "claimed" a song on a specific date 2 years ago. The music website appeared embedded within Facebook, similar to what would appear if I logged into my Facebook account. But I hadn't logged in. What worried me more though were two things:
1. It showed my Facebook Profile Picture, which I had made private to my friends only.
2. It stated that I had "claimed" the song and that I had been the first person to "send the song".

Why am I worried?

1. I had previously checked all my privacy controls on Facebook and made sure everything I wanted private was private. I missed something obviously.

2. My Facebook Profile Picture is a photo which I uploaded on Facebook, not on this second application/website. This photo is not public is private. And this application is displaying it to everyone. Even if I had set my photo to "public", meaning everyone within and outside Facebook can see my picture, it would be my "Facebook Photo" not my "Music application within Facebook Picture". This change of context is misleading.

3. I never "claimed" or "sent the song". What I did is to build a list of songs I liked from a broader list offered by the application. In other words I created a playlist with songs I got from the application. I never knew if I had been the first to pick a song, I never cared. What I know is that I didn't want to "claim" anything let alone being tagged as the one who "sent the song". When I built my playlist I was not aware of these "other" things I was doing. The application never gave me a clue. Or maybe nothing happened in that version of the application until someone decided to change it to add new events. So now it uses a different wording to categorise the actions I did when they were called differently. The change of wording is misleading.

What did I do?

I removed the application from Facebook.

Was any of the information displayed by this music application inappropriate or embarrassing?

No, no personal embarrassing information here. I would've not minded this information to be made public had I actually done what it said I did and been informed previously. This information was not true and taken out of context. It was just frustrating to see how I can easily lose control over my data.
Stuff to read about privacy:
Nissenbaum, (1997) “Toward an approach to privacy in public: the challenges of information technology,” Ethics and Behavior 7(3) , pp. 207–219.
Nissenbaum, H. (1998), “Protecting Privacy in an Information Age: The Problem of Privacy in Public,” Law and Philosophy, 17, pp. 559-596.
Regulating the Use of Social Media Data