Sometimes I encounter things like the below (like on the Animoto site). When I click on the icon to, for example, post on Facebook, they say they want lots of info about me ... like my password, etc. Is it dangerous? safe?
-- Lou
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I appreciate your reservations on this. On the one hand when you connect to those sites like Facebook or Twitter, it's not permanent. You can rescind the connection at any time.
ReplyDeleteHowever, is it dangerous to give them your facebook password? You're not really giving it to them. You're passing it THROUGH them to Facebook in order to make the connection. In theory. Nothing says they can't capture it along the way. But, their privacy statements indicate that they don't do that. They would be shut down immediately if it were discovered that they were capturing your passwords.
But, by all means, if you're not comfortable with it, don't do it.