Not a day goes by without some kind of revelation about what’s being done with our user-generated content and our personal information on social networking sites and blog networks. The scandal around Facebook’s Beacon project, whose aim is to track and broadcast what Facebook users are doing on the Web, forced Facebook to back down. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Why I’m not falling for the Facebook hype
Posted: 14 June 2007 in TechnologyTags: Advertising, facebook, privacy
Here I am again, this time on Facebook, typing in the same details I had typed in at Friendster, Orkut, Tribe and MySpace. I could have done it my sleep, answering the same inane questions about my favorite TV shows, movies, books, hobbies, and interests. So I have to tell yet another social network that [...]
