Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms 95
cgriffin21 writes "No stranger to privacy concerns, Facebook is once again in the privacy spotlight, following a Wall Street Journal report that some popular Facebook applications leak personal information to advertisers. 'Many of the 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,' according to The Wall Street Journal, which wrote about Facebook Sunday in the latest installment of its recent 'What They Know' series about advertising and the Internet."
facebook is the end of privacy as we know it... (Score:5, Funny)
Mark Zuckerberg sure has a predisposition to violating people's privacy and trust.
I would quit facebook but then I would risk losing my 300+ distant, casual acquaintances
Re:i'm gay for linux (Score:5, Funny)
Not only does "obvious troll is obvious" work here, but you posted in the wrong fucking thread. Linux thread is the next story down you raging idiot. What is the world coming to when people can't even troll properly.
Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms (Score:5, Funny)
No stranger to privacy concerns, Facebook is one again in in the privacy spotlight...
Isn't "privacy spotlight" an oxymoron?
Re:i'm gay for linux (Score:3, Funny)
Are you suggesting that we need a new "ADD Troll" moderation?
Re:Top Facebook Apps Violate Privacy Terms (Score:3, Funny)
Only if you're not using a Mac. I get 2880 results for "privacy".
Re:Also in the news (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Also in the news (Score:5, Funny)
I recently purchased an ad on facebook for my company's product.
I should have known something was awry when the following were offered as substitution variables in the ad copy:
$FIRST_NAME ...
$LAST_NAME
$WHAT_MOMMY_CALLS_THEM
$GENDER
$AGE_RANGE
$INCOME_LEVEL
$INCOME_LEVEL_REPORTED_ON_EHARMONY
$SEX_PARTNERS_IN_PAST_6_MONTHS
$SEX_PARTNERS_IN_PAST_6_MONTHS_REALLY
$POLITICAL_PARTY
$POLITICAL_PARTY_THEY_ACTUALLY_VOTE_FOR
$SPOUSE_BIRTHDAY
$MISTRESS_BIRTHDAY
$FACEBOOK_USER_THEY_STALK_MOST
$CREDIT_CARD_LAST_4_DIGITS
$CREDIT_CARD_FIRST_12_DIGITS
Farmville Stats for Advertisers (Score:2, Funny)
Imagine going through this crap.
Chuck in Fargo needs help building his barn.
Mary in New York needs to borrow some fertilizer.
Some data miner for Farmville hates his life.