Facebook may never opt people into sharing their information, as they did with instant personalization.

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The "Instant Personalization" program takes Facebook's social plug-ins even further by automatically importing Facebook profile information to third-party partners.

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Occasionally Facebook will do something greedy and stupid like the recent Instant Personalization feature, and they may not tend to rush to keep users in the loop when they do.

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Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that there was a security hole in Yelp -- one of the test partners in Facebook's "Instant Personalization" program -- that put Facebook user data at risk.

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This puts millions of user accounts and their personal information at the mercy not just of Facebook, but of the ethics of every company that becomes an instant personalization partner in the future.

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Finally, the new settings will make it easier to turn off sharing of your information to applications, like games and quizzes, and to opt-out of instant personalization, a feature where partner websites like Windows Docs and Pandora automatically have access to your public profile information.

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Most other Android skins have now taken to using that as an app launcher dock, but HTC insists on giving you instant access to things like personalization options (which, in themselves, are hardly all that varied) instead of giving you the only option you truly want -- to clear that junk away from the screen.

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