Comments on: Is Facebook Beacon a Privacy Nightmare?

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:17:10 +0000

Facebook does not give 2nd chance to their subscribers when they disabled the accounts.. thats my concerns because they disabled it without any reasons.. they are more than a God who does not care for the feelings of their subscriber whom they got their Living……………..

By: Losing Face | Contemporary Learning

Losing Face | Contemporary Learning — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:12:05 +0000

[...] late 2007. I was listening to This Week in Tech and Leo LaPorte and his crew were dicussing the Facebook/Beacon debacle. In short, Facebook had a formal arrangement with numerous online stores which led to [...]

By: Facebook Needs to Find Its Voice on Privacy - A Collection of Latest Happening in Technology Field

Wed, 12 May 2010 19:36:23 +0000

[...] lamb — instant personalization, perhaps. Like the company’s user activity tracking Beacon product of three years ago, instant personalization was probably launched before its time, and [...]

By: Facebook Needs to Find Its Voice on Privacy

Facebook Needs to Find Its Voice on Privacy — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:57:23 +0000

By: Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations

Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:00:17 +0000

[...] had one major user privacy slip-up). These sites also harken back to Facebook’s ill-fated Beacon activity-sharing project of a few years [...]

By: Facebook’s Disconnect: Open Doors, Closed Exits | Venture Capital & Angel Investors Lists News and Jobs

Sat, 08 May 2010 08:23:59 +0000

[...] Facebook only watches every move they make while they stay on Facebook.com — and who could be justifiably upset when they find out the full extent of [...]

By: Facebook’s Former Privacy Officer, Now AG Candidate, Slams New Features

Facebook’s Former Privacy Officer, Now AG Candidate, Slams New Features — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:25:44 +0000

[...] its Beacon advertising program, which was an attempt to use data from Facebook member profiles to serve up more relevant ads, and also displayed users’ behavior on external sites in their Facebook stream. After a [...]

By: Facebook’s Instant Personalization Is the Real Privacy Problem

Facebook’s Instant Personalization Is the Real Privacy Problem — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:01:29 +0000

[...] revolt and drive the company to drop the feature. We saw that happen with a cousin of this product, Facebook Beacon, three years [...]

By: After Breaking Up With Google, Apple May Turn to Facebook As Its New BFF

After Breaking Up With Google, Apple May Turn to Facebook As Its New BFF — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:02:45 +0000

[...] market (here’s the obligatory call-back to the problematic but perhaps just before-its-time Facebook Beacon product). The Facebook social graph plus iTunes’ 125 million credit card accounts would be [...]

By: Blair David Kelly » You Dot Net (you.net) – The Secure Social Networking Website

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:29:02 +0000

[...] be: take for example Facebook Ads, which, when it was first unveiled, included a system called “Beacon.” Beacon was partnered with approximately 44 external sites that would communicate user’s [...]

By: Josh More – Starmind Blog » Site Review – Plaxo

Josh More – Starmind Blog » Site Review – Plaxo — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:50:56 +0000

[...] very many partners, just Comcast, WebIS Mobile Sync and Yahoo, so your data is likely safer than at some services. The privacy policy is pretty good (the permanent opt-out is particularly nice), as are the terms [...]

By: simon from spa2go hot tubs

simon from spa2go hot tubs — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:19:41 +0000

Look if facebook want to do it or not it’s still going to bring up the same issue as always. We don’t get a say anyway!! and anyway is it really that bad to be getting targeted advertising??? If I’m on facebook and im getting adds about things i actually care about it’s going to make my user experience ( even though im getting sucked into the advertising vortex) a better experience!! as I’m a young guy i dont really want to keep seeing adds about hair loss!!! Some advertising does have value and i would prefer the value to be targeted to me.

By: Facebook Close to Burying Its Beacon Woes

Facebook Close to Burying Its Beacon Woes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:01:07 +0000

[...] 21, 2009 | 7:00 PM PT | 0 comments At long last, Facebook is finally on its way to putting its Beacon troubles to rest. Following a class action lawsuit filed by 20 disgruntled Facebook users in August of last [...]

By: Facebook Bows to Canada Over Privacy Concerns

Facebook Bows to Canada Over Privacy Concerns — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:12:22 +0000

[...] also has had run-ins with its users over how it keeps their data private, particularly with Beacon. This summer, people expressed widespread concern on the web over questions of whether Facebook [...]

By: mlgreen8753

mlgreen8753 — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:38:13 +0000

This is a great feature for advertisers, but users may frown upon it a bit. I think advertisers would be better off using an advertising network like Adwido instead where advertisements are sought out and not forced on people.

By: Identity Imposture on Facebook « korzacsol

Identity Imposture on Facebook « korzacsol — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:22:01 +0000

[...] Advertising on Facebook and the controversy about Facebook-Beacons…”Beacons track what people do on the Internet while being logged in to Facebook. When I read an article in the New York Times, the New York Times will send a short notice to my Facebook profile which then will be displayed to my Facebook friends (or whoever can read my feed according to my privacy settings). I need to be logged into Facebook.”…Fred Stutzman explains how this works: Any time you load [a] Beacon-enabled page, Facebook knows exactly what you are looking at. In essence, this setup is sending your clickstream and path data to Facebook, precisely correlated to your Facebook identity.”…see here and here. [...]