Facebook users, let this article on FB’s new marketing tool “Beacon” be your beacon of warning.
I bet you didn’t even know this was going on…and that’s the whole point.
[via ars technica]
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1) Facebook was bold enough to show us they were doing it- imagine what other sites you subscribe to have access to based on ‘partner relations’… I see this as an opportunity to expose a vital sharing AND COLLECTION of personal information between ANY website (MSN/hotmail for example??). Itunes does a very similar thing with its online music store (targeted advertising).
P.S.- how much money do you give to facebook? How did you think they would pay for the servers, bandwidth, development, staff…
Comment by Leppink 29 November 07 @ 9:21 pm“Facebook was bold enough to show us they were doing it…”
I use Facebook daily. Oddly, “Beacon” never showed up in my mini-feed - though many multiple television shows and other miscellaneous ads (even one, oddly, for a hospital) have been popping up consistently. Who, then, did they tell? I also don’t consider this magnanimous.
“…how much money do you give to facebook? How did you think they would pay for the servers, bandwidth, development, staff…”
This is, indeed, a slippery slope. How far do you go in the name of “service” before all civil liberty has been stripped away? It is an honest question, and an equally honest challenge…
Comment by Tony 29 November 07 @ 9:37 pm