[ga] Bridging the gap: Why privacy and security are so important IX - Facebook, Others Giving User Private Data To Advertisers

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Yet another example of how UCE SPAM and other forms of
online white collar crime are being unwittingly perpatrated on
Internet social network patrons/users.  I hope our LEA's 
get on top of this one as it it clear that self restraint
or prior restraint in respect to self regulation clearly 
isn't working. >:(  I for one also don't buy the statements
( see below ) from Google or Yahoo!  Anyone that does is
overly gullable at best.  I hope that both Google and Yahoo's!
legal council will make a public retraction to such unrelistic
statements soon!???

See:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/21/1127210/Facebook-Others-Giving-User-Private-Data-To


A Wall Street Journal report that indicates
that Facebook's privacy troubles may be just beginning. "Facebook,
MySpace, and several other social networking sites have been 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704513104575256701215465596.html
sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' 
names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such
information without consent. The practice, which most of the companies
defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being
viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall
Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By Thursday
morning Facebook had rewritten some of the offending computer code. ...
Several large advertising companies ... including Google Inc.'s
DoubleClick and Yahoo Inc.'s Right Media, said they were unaware of the
data being sent to them from the social networking sites, and said they
haven't made use of it. ... The sites may have been breaching their own
privacy policies as well as industry standards. ... Those policies have
been put forward by advertising and Internet companies in arguments
against the need for government regulation.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 294k members/stakeholders and growing, 
strong!)
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