Over on LooseWire (which I found via AllThingsD) Jeremy Wagstaff asks "Who Needs Enemies When You Have Facebook Friends?" He goes on to suggest that "It might be time to remove a) all your data and b) all third party apps from your Facebook profile." His point is that Facebook applications can access your private data, and the private data of all your friends. Turned around, that means that a Over on LooseWire (which I found via AllThingsD) Jeremy Wagstaff asks “Who Needs Enemies When You Have Facebook Friends?” He goes on to suggest that “It might be time to remove a) all your data and b) all third party apps from your Facebook profile.”His point is that Facebook applications can access your private data, and the private data of all your friends. Turned around, that means that an application installed by any of your Facebook friends can access your private data.This turns into a game of “Who do you trust?” In the case of a teenager building cookbook Facebook applications with PHP in his den, I have to wonder whether any trust I’ve placed may have been misplaced. When the developer is a legitimate company, for example ActiveState, then I’m probably not so worried. One of the comments to Wagstaff’s post points out that Greylock Venture Capital is one of Facebook’s investors. That’s no surprise. It goes on to point out that one of Greylock’s senior partners, Howard Cox, is also on the board of In-Q-Tel, a.k.a. IQT, which is the firm that funded Google Earth back when it was Keyhole. IQT’s mission is to identify, adapt, and deliver technology solutions that support the mission of the CIA and the broader U.S. intelligence community.Hunh.This is a slim thread of guilt by association, right up there with tying Saddam to bin Laden. But it makes you think, doesn’t it? Software Development