When it comes to online games like Farmville, are we the players - or the ones being played?

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal revealed a privacy lapse in Facebook that allowed third party app companies - notably Farmville-creator Zynga - to access private user information and then re-distribute...

The fun, free, Wild West days of the Internet are over -- and in their place have come the quiet, controlled online suburbs of Facebook and other social media networks. As online society corrals itself into gated communities, we have the (reasonable) expectation of better privacy and protection ... But...