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List Of Companies That Participate In Facebook's Beacon Spy Program

One of our readers yesterday left a couple of interesting links in the comments section of our Beacon post. They provide the names of the companies that Facebook says are participating in its poorly conceived spy program Beacon. Here they are: More »

9:25 AM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Chris Walters
7,832 views, 58 comments

online privacy

Facebook's Beacon Even Sneakier Than Originally Thought

Last week, Facebook made a lot of noise about how it was making its new Beacon spyware—we mean advertising initiative—less sneaky. But guess what? Over the weekend, Computer Associates reported that even after you've declined to have Beacon advertise your habits back to your friends, and even if you've logged out of Facebook, it will still surreptitiously report your actions back to Facebook's servers. And there's no way you can turn it off. More »

9:36 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Chris Walters
6,195 views, 49 comments

Latest by Mr. Gunn: If you'll read the profile of Zuckerberg, you'll see why no one who knows him is even all that surprised. Give your info to a sociopath if you want, but don't be surprised when he does something dickish more »