Friday, May 21, 2010

Is Facebook Playing Fair?

A Harvard economics professor has filed a complaint that Facebook is selling personal data about their customers in violation of their privacy policies. The professor claims that when Facebook users click on ad that Facebook passes on their account identifier. The ad owner can then track the ad visitor back to a personal profile and harvest their personal information such as age, hometown, and job type. It will be interesting to see how this complaint plays out in the inevitable court cases.

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