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Facebook And Myspace Caught Sharing Your Personal Information
The privacy issues that have been hounding Facebook may be coming to a head. A report in the Wall Street Journal indicates that the Facebook, along with MySpace, Digg, and a handful of other social-networking sites, have been sharing users’ personal data with advertisers without users’ knowledge or consent.
The data shared includes names, user IDs, and other information sufficient to enable ad companies such as the Google-owned DoubleClick to identify distinct user profiles. Some of the sites in question, including MySpace and Facebook, stopped sharing the data after the Journal asked them about it. The surreptitious data sharing was first noticed (PDF) by researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and AT&T Labs in August 2009, who brought it up with the sites in question. It wasn’t until WSJ contacted them that changes were made.
Facebook has tweaked its privacy policy throughout its history, with the most recent moves to open up more user information to the public drawing heavy criticism and FTC complaints. Users have also had a tough time navigating the site’s. With these latest revelations about Facebook ignoring industry standards, not to mention its own privacy policies, that trickle may turn into a torrent.
Facebook comes online again in Pakistan, now Bangladesh bans it on hurting the sentiments of muslims, read everything on my post :
http://www.worldshotcake.com/web/facebook-finally-goes-online-in-pakistan/
btw, this is not spam, take care
this is nothing new, thats why I don’t fuk with Myspace/Facebook
and if U sign up just don’t put any name/zip code ect, same with email accounts, especially GMail
funny nobody reads the fine print
it states that facebook it will take your information an dpass it along to other 3rd party sites/companies for surveys etc.
when i said this a year ago people said na your crazy alex,but now look its out in the open the sheep will finally listen
fuck president barry soetoro also,google him,youll be surprised
The way Google always gets out of these personal information sharing accusations is by saying they had no personal interaction with the data. All the data handled by the servers and there is probably fine print related to how data is handled when it’s shared. That’s the problem with privacy on websites. When you think you’re getting some type of privacy, there’s another layer below that privacy that is in a smaller font on a more hidden page. Names and user names are not very difficult to obtain. I can see names of fans of any Facebook group without wanting to advertise to them or gather any information about them. In some respects, the privacy accusations are out of control.