Saturday, November 24, 2007

'Privacy hairball'

Do you use Facebook? Do you use the Beacon feature? Then your online shopping habits may be getting publicized for all your friends to see. Wouldn't that spoil some Christmas surprises? Facebook argues that you can opt out - what they neglect to mention is that this has to be done for every online shopping portal you use with Beacon enabled. Here's another article on the 'privacy hairball'.

Thanks again to Ernest for the find.

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