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Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole - WSJ.com
Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent. The practice, which most of the companies defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes.
Report: Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers (Build 20100722155716)
The privacy issues that have been hounding Facebook may be coming to a head. A report in the Wall Street Journal indicates that the Facebook, along with MySpace, Digg, and a handful of other social-networking sites, have been sharing users' personal data with advertisers without users' knowledge or consent. The data shared includes names, user IDs, and other information sufficient to enable ad companies such as the Google-owned DoubleClick to identify distinct user profiles. Some of the sites in question, including MySpace and Facebook, stopped sharing the data after the Journal asked them about it. The surreptitious data sharing was first noticed (PDF) by researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and AT&T Labs in August 2009, who brought it up with the sites in question.
Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people control over what they share, they will want to share more. If people share more, the world will become more open and connected.
Mark Zuckerberg - From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings
Facebook is migrating its users into public forums, called "Pages," based on the "Likes and Interests" and "Work and Education" sections of user profiles. The important thing Facebook users need to know is that even if their profile is private, membership in these "Pages" will be public information. Click here to see how to prevent publishing sensitive information > If a user lists "Skiing" as one of their interests on their private profile, at the end of the migration process, this user will either publicly belong to a "Skiing" Page or have chosen not to.
CAREFUL: Facebook's New Settings Publish Your Interests, Even If They're Private (Build 20100722155716)
"When I got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was 'why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?' "And then in the last 5 or 6 years, blogging has taken off in a huge way and all these different services that have people sharing all this information.
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over (Build 20100722155716)
Report: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy | Epicenter | Wired.com (Build 20100722155716)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears to have been outed as not caring one whit about your privacy — a jarring admission, considering how much of our personal data Facebook owns, not to mention its plans to become the web’s central repository for our preferences and predilections. Also interesting is how this came about: Not in a proper article, but in a tweet by Nick Bilton, lead technology blogger for the The New York Times ‘ Bits Blog, based on a conversation he says was “off the record” and which he may have confused with “not for attribution.” “Off record chat w/ Facebook employee,” begins Bilton’s fateful tweet . “Me: How does Zuck feel about privacy? Response: [laughter] He doesn’t believe in it.” Ouch.Why Mark Zuckerberg needs to come clean about his views on priva
Privacy, Facebook’s critical issue — and Achilles heel — has come to the fore again. After the company unveiled a program that automatically shared data with special partners and changed the way it tracks people’s interests last month, bloggers and users are up in arms. For Facebook’s youthful founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who turns 26 on Friday, it’s a conundrum. The company scheduled an all-hands meeting for 4 PM Pacific time on Thursday to discuss the issues, the company confirmed: a Q&A for Facebook’s thousand-plus employees to clear the air, rather than an announcement of new plans.
Zuckerberg's Privacy Stance: Facebook CEO 'Doesn't Believe In Privacy' (Build 20100722155716)
Facebook has come under fire from privacy advocates, users, and now even US senators for what many believe is the site's lack of concern for protecting user privacy. During an interview with TechCrunch, Zuckerberg revealed that he had taken an "about face" on privacy and argued that privacy was no longer a "social norm." "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," Zuckerberg said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time."
Facebook’s Paul Buchheit justifies increasing openness, less privacy | VentureBeat (Build 20100722155716)
Facebook’s Paul Buchheit, the Gmail creator who coined Google’s “Don’t be evil” slogan and later came to the social network through its FriendFeed acquisition, said he’s found immense value in removing most privacy restrictions to his profile. His comments come as Facebook has once again overhauled its privacy protections through a new instant personalization program and an ambitious plan to spread its features across the web. Well, I actually changed my privacy settings to be more public. Only my phone number and email are private because I don’t want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything. This has a lot to do with my experiences with FriendFeed.
Facebook is among the most powerful internet companies – maybe the most powerful together with Google – in the world. It has 400m users, 35m of whom use it at least once a day. It is the most visited website in the US. Its initial public offering, which is expected within a year or two, would be the biggest Silicon Valley event since Google’s IPO in 2004.
Facebook's Open Disdain For Privacy
Christopher Poole, the founder of controversial online image board 4chan , outlined his vision for Web-based community today at the South by Southwest Interactive conference — and yes, his ideas are in pretty sharp contrast to those of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has spent a lot of time talking about his stance on identity and privacy, especially recently, as Facebook has taken more criticism for its various privacy policies. (To get the flavor of his remarks, check out VentureBeat’s post about Zuckerberg’s privacy stance from last May, as well as David Kirkpatrick’s book The Facebook Effect .) He’s been pretty aggressive ins advocating that users should have a single identity that’s consistent they are online, because that encourages them to be more authentic (and also means they can carry their social connections with them to any site). Poole, who is also known under his 4chan username “moot”, said, “I think that’s totally wrong.”