Leaving Facebook is surprisingly difficult:
Facebook’s quiet archiving of information from deactivated accounts has increased concerns about the network’s potential abuse of private data, especially in the wake of its fumbled Beacon advertising feature.
Thanks Sarah.
First, a moment of xen. Err… Zen:
Now with the tone and mood set, turn your attention please to the hardening tone of the conversation around facebook’s beacon.
PCWorld made a play for more attention by re-rolling their previous story, this time focusing on the potential that beacon has for harvesting data from people who don’t even [...]
Did I mention I’m glad I left facebook? NYTimes lays out the evolution of beacon so far, starting:
Facebook keeps tweaking its new Beacon advertising program, which tracks users’ actions on sites other than Facebook.
It has cropped screenshots of the various versions of the popup that beacon has sent to people’s profiles over the course of [...]
PCWorld is running an article saying that facebook’s beacon is more invasive than previously thought:
“The first two cases involve the transmission of user data despite ‘No thanks’ having been selected on the opt-out dialog, and are causes for deep concern. They pale, however, in comparison to the third case, where Facebook was receiving data about [...]
Facebook doesn’t want you to read an article that paints its head, Zuckerberg, very negatively. From the article-about-the-article:
Facebook Inc. filed two legal motions aiming to force an independent magazine to take down from its Web site documents related to a suit over the social-networking site’s origins.
Early yesterday, Facebook’s lawyers notified 02138, an independent magazine geared [...]
On the third try I was finally able to deactivate my account.
In the real world, we don’t articulate our social networks. Imagine how creepy it would be to wander into a co-worker’s cubicle and discover the wall covered with tiny photos of everyone in the office, ranked by “friend” and “foe,” with the top eight friends elevated to a small shrine decorated with Post-It roses and [...]
Facebook has apparently backpedaled on beacon. Beacon will not publish to your feed without explicit permission the first time any vendor tries to publish. At that time you can choose whether to block that vendor, prompt every time, or allow the vendor to publish every time. The most important bit is that apparently it will [...]
I haven’t actually registered yet, but I’m reading the STOS for socializr and I think I will:
PHOTO GUIDELINES. When you set up a free Socializr account, you will have the opportunity to post photographs of yourself. These photographs should be of you and should be as awesome as possible. We will accept photographs which show [...]
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:12:13PM -0800, Facebook Support wrote:
> Hi Cristóbal,
>
> Your feedback has made it clear that Beacon can be kind of confusing.
Thanks for NOT reading my email at all. That’s great. A condescending
form letter makes me feel so much better.
What I asked for was a way to opt out of beacon [...]
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