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lj_refugees2010-10-18 06:37 am
primsong) wrote in lj_refugees2010-10-18 06:37 am
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Why am I absolutely not even mildly surprised?
Facebook in Online Privacy Breach (at the online Wall Street Journal)
Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found....
It seems LJ's new overlords would love to follow in such footsteps. I imagine enthusiastic plans to start up a goat-themed version of Farmville that will autofill the sidebars, then to convert the icons into 'flair'.... oooo, just think of the advertising revenue...
*snuggles DWth account*
Facebook in Online Privacy Breach (at the online Wall Street Journal)
Many of the most popular applications, or "apps," on the social-networking site Facebook Inc. have been transmitting identifying information—in effect, providing access to people's names and, in some cases, their friends' names—to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies, a Wall Street Journal investigation has found....
It seems LJ's new overlords would love to follow in such footsteps. I imagine enthusiastic plans to start up a goat-themed version of Farmville that will autofill the sidebars, then to convert the icons into 'flair'.... oooo, just think of the advertising revenue...
*snuggles DWth account*
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I took another look at the article, read it thoroughly, and just shook my head. My ex husband has done his level best to bury me every way he can, and of course my current husband's ex wife has done the same to him. What's being done - has been done, I should say - here sounds so much like something one of them would pull. Makes me extremely glad the hubby didn't bow to pressure from HIS family to set up a FB account. All he had to say, when I read it to him, was "oh that's just NOT good", which in his laid back, southern way means "oh hell no". Heh.