Having been strongly criticised over its ‘Places’ feature for its lack of understanding of the concept of ‘consent’ in data protection, and why ‘opt-in’ is better for users than ‘opt-out’ when it comes to new ‘services’ (i.e: ways they can share your data with other organisations), Facebook is doing it again.
Between today and tomorrow, the new Facebook feature called “Instant Personalization” goes into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-Facebook sites and it is automatically set to “Enabled”.
To turn it off: Go to Account>Privacy Settings>Apps & Websites>Instant Personalization>edit settings & uncheck “Enable”.
(Or of course, you can just ‘Turn Off All Platform Apps” too!)
The really important thing is that if your Facebook Friends don’t do this, they will be sharing info about you as well. So, copy this and repost to yours…
(Thanks to Lorna Muir for this alert)
ubisurv 
The box wasn’t autochecked for me (it wasn’t enabled by default). Is there some other setting that controls whether this is on or off when it appears?
Maybe you already have all apps turned off?