I have a Facebook account which I use sporadically.  Over the last couple years I have tried out one or two Zynga games and quit once I reached my fill of 'meh'. So in an effort to cut down on spam and garbage I went ahead and removed my subscriptions from the games and blocked notifications. I have also gone into my privacy settings there and set them all to Friends Only. And removed any friend links to the games themselves.

I apologize to any of my friends who sends me gifts for those games as I never see them.

But here's the dilemma. I continue to receive spam emails from Zynga.  When I go to unsubscribe from the unwanted messages Zynga insist that it want's access to my Facebook account in order to complete this request. And since I am unwilling to allow any more access by Zynga to any personal information, I hit a brick wall here.

You might say "Okay, well then just set up a spam filter and be done with this" and you would be right. Or would you?

I read a couple weeks ago that there were several older content providers for Facebook who were grandfathered out of the recent changes in Facebook privacy rules. Zynga is one of them.

So even though I have taken the steps that are available to me, to distance myself from everything Zynga, I am concerned that they are still collecting personal data.

So hear me now or hear me later, Zynga, Facebook and all the rest of you trolls.  Under the Federal Anti-Spam law you:

• must provide clear instructions on how you can opt out of getting email in the future and the sender must honor the individual's right to request that you stop sending them communications within a 10-day period. You are not allowed to request any charges for removing the user from your mailing list or make it difficult for the user to request removal, such as making them visit multiple sites. You also may not ask for any identifying information beyond their email address when they opt-out of the email. Once someone has requested to be removed from a list that person's name cannot be transferred or sold to another company