facebook account revealed private email address as alias

[Jack Wasey]

Binary package hint: empathy

my email address is only visible to me in facebook on the web.

empathy kindly used it as my default alias and broadcast it to everyone.

expected: use Anonymous as default alias if there really is nothing else available. What about my name?!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Feb 18 06:52:15 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
Package: empathy 2.29.90-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic x86_64

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I think this is not a problem of empathy its rather the way facebook chat behaves. in my case the username s are shown as <email address hidden> please ask you contact to register their username by opening facebook.com/username then you will see their username. and also facebook chat is not officially supported at this point it is only working as gtalk way. Facebook chat will be implemented fully in empathy 2.32

[Jack Wasey (jackwasey)]

i'm afraid I disagree - facebook legitimately provides information about the user who logs in. Empathy then displays this private information to all my contacts. If Empathy cannot tell whether the email address associated with a facebook account is private, it should not use it!

how is the bug incomplete?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Jack Wasey (jackwasey)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610518

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610518

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

from upstream
"Facebook is the service which provides chat communication. Empathy is just the
client that uses the information Facebook provides. If Facebook tells us to
show your email address as alias we do so, because we cannot know if you want
it so or not.

Facebook is so restrictive that you cannot set your alias from the client (as
far as I know). This means we can only display what facebook sends to us.

Can you confirm that this happens only with empathy and not with other clients?
Because I'm sure this is a facebook issue. Please contact the facebook
developers."

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marking invalid as per last comment