Saturday, November 17, 2007
Facebook, Commercial Transactions, and Privacy
Ethan Zuckerman has a must-read post on Facebook's new privacy violation. So, if you're on Facebook often and actually do care about your privacy, please do read the post. Ethan also points to a very useful tool that lets you opt-out of ad-tracking networks, rather than quit Facebook altogether (I cannot comment yet on its efficacy). I do understand why Facebook has come up with this idea (tracking your commercial transactions), but I find it a serious violation of privacy and I would urge all of you to read Ethan's post in full. David Weinberger also has an excellent piece up on Huffington Post on the same issue.
