Your Facebook account. Give it to me.

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/04/calgary-airport-wifi-privacy.html

If you want to use Wi-fi in Calgary airport, you have to give them access to your 
Facebook info.

(Actually, it sounds like this is one option, the others being to pay for hotspot 
access.)

I suspect that this is just Facebook trying to build their attempt at becoming an 
"identity provider": lots of sites now allow you to "log in" with Facebbok 
credentials.  It's probably turning up in news from Calgary because Canadian 
privacy laws say you have to warn people that you are accessing information.  I 
suspect it may be happening other places.

Any Facebbok app, of course, is allowed to access *all* of your Facebook 
information.  There does seem to be a way to limit access of "remote" apps, but I 
don't know how effective that is.

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