Earlier this week, a Google engineer was caught spying on users, and a few old emails from Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he had easy access to user profiles in the early days of the service. As we move more and more of our personal information into the cloud and onto social networks, we really have to trust these companies' developers that they won't misuse our data. At the same time, though, we also have to be able to assume that companies like Twitter and Facebook will ensure that developers of third-party apps can't easily snoop on us either. According to OneForty's Mike Champion, Twitter's API currently makes it too easy for unscrupulous third-party developers to access private direct messages (DMs), for example.
Time to go an cull some of those social media apps that I allowed a long time ago that I've forgotten about. Also, be careful what you DM, it might not be private forever.
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