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- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -1/+44One privacy issue remains: Facebook Beacon is still collecting this data and tracking user behaviour across a variety of sites. Someone put it this way: if somebody stood behind you writing down every website you visited, would you trust them to safeguard that data? How about if they could make money from it?
Follow these instructions to block your data from being sent to Beacon: http://www.ideashower.com/blog/block-facebook-beac ... - arunforce, on 12/03/2007, -5/+42No such thing. Everyone knows America is the only country in the world.
- bowe, on 12/03/2007, -0/+19You mean the terrorists?
- duggtodeath, on 12/03/2007, -3/+18What about users outside of America?
- spyd3rweb, on 12/03/2007, -3/+15People are posting their entire lives on a stupid website and then they're concerned about privacy????? WTF!
- hipsterelitist, on 12/03/2007, -0/+11This article doesn't say anything about them abandoning the underlying workings of Beacon, it just says they're not putting the stuff out in the open without proper consent. I'm more concerned with them collecting this data than whether or not they post it for my peers to see.
- PHiZ187, on 12/03/2007, -0/+7Facebook's position all along was that "users would learn to accept" the feature. Pardon my paranoia, but I have a sneaking suspicion that companies like Facebook are "softening up" our sense of privacy, so that we will not complain as much when they eventually do away with it.
As the new generation of kids grows up online, they become accustomed to sharing their private lives with their friends, and my virtue of that with the big datamining corporations. It is in these corporations best intrests if they do not have to fuss with people worrying about the invasiveness of their policies.
Privacy is not dead, as some would have you accept. Technology is adding new and challenging ways that your privacy can be invaded, and we need to remain vigilent and not get complacent as we let our privacy rights slip away. - vvaduva, on 12/03/2007, -3/+10How about STOP using facebook altogether? This was the last straw with me!
- colto, on 12/03/2007, -1/+8You really need to get your sarcasm detector fixed...
- bluechips23, on 12/03/2007, -0/+5To be honest, Facebook is just a big joke at your privacy. Same goes for MySpace, Orkut and dozen other social networking websites. Digg stays cool though :P
- cogit0, on 12/03/2007, -0/+5Wait, isn't that EXACTLY what google has been doing for years now?
- dansmeek, on 12/03/2007, -0/+5I'm starting to get downright scared of facebook. I wish I had never created an account on there. I think everything has gone downhill since they started the whole "mini feed" thing and opened it up to anyone regardless of whether they were in college or not.
- heyitsgarrett, on 12/03/2007, -1/+5Adblock doesn't block this (or it didn't two weeks ago). I have it installed and it still came up when I made a purchase from Overstock.com
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -1/+5Yeah, what advertiser in their right mind would ever pay for that level of targetting?
- qpn6ph9q, on 12/03/2007, -0/+4This service was introduced AFTER many of us signed up. Fine print or not, it was foisted upon us. Get it now?
- echolyean, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3I think this is a good example of why Mark Zuckerberg, talented an entrepreneur as he is at a young age, still has quite a bit to learn.
- qpn6ph9q, on 12/03/2007, -0/+3There is a difference between voluntarily sharing stuff about yourself, as we all assumed to be the case, and finding that facebook had gone and posted our purchase histories without our explicit permission.
- duggtodeath, on 12/03/2007, -1/+4A sarcasm detector? Oh, that's a *really* useful device!
- 68024, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Except there is no way to actually delete your profile and user id on facebook.
- Nerdman01, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Heh... That's good. I hate facebook.
- saifatlast, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2What's with the capitalization of the letter K?
- RSterkenburg, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3That's probably one of the smartest things they could have done. The general public doesn't like their privacy infringed upon, especially not like that.
- RoyalPwner, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Good.
- Pinkertinkle, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3Whoever thought up Facebook Beacon is one stupid mofo.
- hexydes, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Hmm, interesting. I wondered what Facebook would eventually do to drop themselves from grace in the public's eye. MySpace, Facebook...what's next?
lol, and how many billions of dollars did Facebook think it was worth again? Please. - etnu, on 12/03/2007, -1/+3Posting dumb ***** on the internet is not "social interaction". Having a party and inviting your friends over to drink some beers or discuss politics is "social interaction".
- sdlvx, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2You can pass HR 1955, you can torture people, you can listen to our phone calls, you can spy on our internet.
But, when FACEBOOK spies, revolt!
Pathetic. - elsagacious, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2You add the filter to the add-on BlockSite, not AdBlock.
- darkism, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2The college kids that dominate Facebook are the *whiniest* bunch of ninnies. Seriously. First a hubub over the Developer Network, then News Feed and now this.
And their CTR on ads is terrible, anyway. Who knows why anyone would want to try and market to them. - gerbco, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Why should I have to? Users were revolting and about to jump ship, facefook mgment saw that and reversed course. They swindled Microsoft already for all those billions so they don't give a damn.
- dusanmal, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2If you carefully read the description of how it works, it simply doesn't matter if you have or even never have had Facebook account. Data about ALL purchases on the participating websites is sent to the Facebook. Do you think they'll throw away names and purchase info of potential future Facebook members at large? The only way to stop them is to block them at the source (ex. blocksite add-on for Firefox) or not use participating merchants (ex. Amazon,...?).
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2Only a few years ago, the "Ordering pizza in the near future" video -- http://www.members.shaw.ca/grandmafaith2/orderingp ... -- was funny, if a bit uncomfortable.
It's not funny anymore. - bowe, on 12/03/2007, -0/+2millions. But yeah they did get paid.
- bowe, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1I just set firefox to only store per session cookies from facebook and close my browser, than open it when i'm done using facebook. Sorta pain but I wasn't sure if the Adblock method was entirely effective. I'm getting ever closer to taking vvaduva's recommendation.
- DrSpud, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1That's how Konqueror shows it. It's a KDE thing.
- rudy23, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2yeah we all read the fine print when signing up for a service.
- NeoSporin, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1God forbid I start getting penis enlargement spam in my mailbox AND on my answering machine.
- qpn6ph9q, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Great news. Shame I closed my account.
- TheKappa, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1I'm not on Facebook, nor will I be.
http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/ - DrSpud, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Of course it still came up. You need to add the filter *facebook.com/beacon* to AdBlocK, and it'll put an end to all that nonsense. :)
- stygiansonic, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Other people have it right - Google, Doubleclick (which is now part of Google) and others have been tracking browsing habits for far longer than Facebook - and not only could they make money from it, but they most certainly have.
- captaindigger, on 12/03/2007, -3/+4Last time I checked the American dollars was worth less then Bush's approval rating.
- dusanmal, on 12/03/2007, -1/+2THANKS! for the link... Exactly what to expect if Hillary's health care lure get us hooked...
- LukaszH, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Facebook member's privacy is not well secured here is the proof http://www.e-controversy.com/Facebook_Privacy_1a.h ...
- Genma, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1if you have cookies on and you don't clear them out on a regular basis I gaurantee you have many others on your system doing the exact same thing.
- pix3l, on 12/03/2007, -3/+3You seem a little bitter about people enjoying social interaction... You can join too you know.
- h4mx0r, on 12/03/2007, -2/+2I would turn around and pummel that guy in the face. Then take his information and his money. There, tables turned and problem solved.
- spudnic, on 12/03/2007, -1/+1I don't have a problem at all so long as none of my personal data is connected to it.
Following your metaphor, if they were just writing down a list of sites I visited, and nothing else, I'd let 'em go nuts. - DHels13, on 12/05/2007, -0/+0in order to maintain privacy, facebook should only use opt-in rather than opt-out advertising.
- inactive, on 12/03/2007, -1/+1Umm, hello, when was there any privacy on facebook? i hate online social networking.
much better than facebook:
http://www.hatebook.com/ -
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