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 [...]