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Facebook users complain of new tracking
NEW YORK – Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see. Those users say they never noticed a...
View ArticleHow Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook
In an Internet Week article columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you’re looking to...
View ArticleFacebook backpedals on Beacon
Under pressure from moveon.org and others Facebook has changed it’s controversial Beacon feature, where outside purchases were published in a user’s news feed, to ‘opt-in’ rather than ‘opt out’.Users...
View ArticleFacebook’s Beacon tracks all users
An article in Computerworld explains that Facebook’s Beacon javascript, once incorporated in a partner site, collects information on activities of all users with a Facebook cookie, not just logged in...
View ArticleSocial Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
Danah M. Boyd of University of California-Berkeley and Nicole B. Ellison of Michigan State University have published a paper in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication summing up the scholarly...
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