This story in the guardian is another reminder of how if you don't pay for something online you're not the customer, you're the product...and the innocuous default settings can result in your data being spread far and wide. Most people probably don't know that the default privacy settings in facebook mean that if a facebook friend of yours uses an app, then the website/company behind that app (which might be respectable , or dodgy, or unaccountable, or untraceable one) has access to all your data that the friend can see. So if you share a photo with a facebook friend, a website you have nothing to do with can access and even use that photo, as in the case below.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/feb/08/date-rating-site-data-protection-act
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