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just deleted my 2-day-old facebook account (evidenced in bg img) marc garrett wrote: > Facebook, Others Giving User Private Data To Advertisers. > > "Facebook, MySpace, and several other social networking sites have been > sending data > (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704513104575256701215465596.html) > > to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and > other personal details, despite promises they don't share such > information without consent. The practice, which most of the companies > defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being > viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall > Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By Thursday > morning Facebook had rewritten some of the offending computer code. ... > Several large advertising companies ... including Google Inc.'s > DoubleClick and Yahoo Inc.'s Right Media, said they were unaware of the > data being sent to them from the social networking sites, and said they > haven't made use of it. ... The sites may have been breaching their own > privacy policies as well as industry standards. ... Those policies have > been put forward by advertising and Internet companies in arguments > against the need for government regulation." Slashdot.org > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
