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Call It Tracebook
Oct 25, 2010 • No Comments
First there was last week’s kerfuffle over the Wall Street Journal piece headlined, “Facebook in Privacy Breach.” (Sneak ADtack take here.) CyberBible TechCrunch dismissed the report as the inmates running the asylum: So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that most people in tech, let alone the general population, have no idea what...
Call It Facecrook
Oct 19, 2010 • 2 Comments
Turns out that Facebook is fencing users’ personal information to advertisers and webstalking companies. From the Wall Street Journal’s invaluable What They Know series: Facebook in Privacy Breach 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...
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