Moveon.org points out a major privacy violation in a new feature on Facebook: items you've bought through other sites will appear as stories in your Newsfeed. Make sure to block this function before you start buying your friends holiday presents!
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- KasiaC
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- added November 22, 2007
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This is the response to the global outcry over Facebook allowing information from a variety of outside sources to be displayed on user's personal news feeds. It amazes me things like this happen, surely they would have thought of the implications before they agreed? Click the picture to see my solution!
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Gamefly is also in on this. I was adding games to my rental queue when a notice saying Facebook was adding it to my public feed.
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- TheRealEdwin
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google and other interested parties are just pointing out features common to most online social networks and other web based apps.
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Just how far does the rabbit hole go? This journalist thinks it goes deeeeeeep. Do you want to take the blue pill or the red pill?
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- phillyharper
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