It has taken two years and a lawsuit, to end the Facebook Beacon controversy. Now the social networking giant is finally turning off the ads. More on the story. The application launched in 2007 tracked the activities of Facebook users on 42 partner Web sites and then revealed those activities users’ friends unless they turned [...]
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Facebook Beacon Controversy Update: Ads to Be Shut Off to Settle Lawsuit
September 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Privacy and Marketing, Social Networking
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Only Your Digital Shadow Knows….
March 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Privacy and Marketing, Privacy and New Technology, Social Networking
Your digital shadow has a life of its own. Literally. The digital universe — the pile of digital information that includes everything from e-mail to YouTube videos — is growing faster than previously thought, according to a new study from the research firm IDC. IDC now estimates that, at 281 exabytes, the digital universe in [...]
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Ask.com Releases AskEraser, A New Privacy Switch
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Privacy and Marketing, Search Engines and Privacy
The search engine Ask.com is making a proactive move. Ask.com will unveil on Tuesday a “privacy switch” that lets users completely erase their search queries and related data from the search engine’s servers. The new feature, dubbed AskEraser, is believed to mark the first time that Internet users have been given control over whether their [...]
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