The Hunger Games is a wildly popular series of books about a dystopian future where the government spies on your every move and teenagers square off in a to-the-death tournament for the amusement of the upper-class residents of the capitol city. The books are soon to become a big-time Hollywood franchise and as part of the much-hyped countdown to that release, millions of people are getting in on the viral marketing by logging onto a website that creates a unique badge for each user. But are these people looking at the permissions they’re signing away when they log in?

We’ve received complaints from people who went to TheCapitol.pn to take part in the badge-making fun, only to find out that they are required to use either Facebook or Twitter to log in. And then when you click either of those options, you’re greeted with a litany of permissions you need to grant the site.

Signing up through Twitter allows this site to:
Read Tweets from your timeline.
See who you follow, and follow new people.
Update your profile.
Post Tweets for you.

Signing up via Facebook gives the site the following permissions:
Access my basic information
(name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information you’ve made public)
Send me email
Post to Facebook as me
Access my data any time
Access my custom friend lists
Access my profile information
(Birthday and Current City)
Access my photos
Access information people share with me
(Birthdays, Family Members and Relationship Statuses and Current Cities)

One person who made a badge on the site tells Consumerist she was originally able to sign up and create hers using just an e-mail but confirms that the site has been updated in the days since and that this option no longer appears.

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