Facebook 'violates privacy laws'
Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English
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Bowing a bit more to the recent angry sentiment from privacy advocates and some users, Facebook just made yet another change to its controversial Beacon program. (article 5)
No longer will the social network publish a user's Internet activities to his or her friends on the service without getting explicit approval. (article 5)
In a statement this evening, the company described the change: Users must click on "OK" in a new initial notification on their Facebook home page before the first Beacon story is published to their friends from each participating site. (article 5)
Blake Ross, a founding member of the team that created the Firefox Web browser, has been pictured on the cover of Wired magazine and profiled in publications like Rolling Stone and Time. (article 4)
The company that Mr. Ross started with fellow Firefox alum Joe Hewitt was acquired today by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. (article 4)
When last we looked at the world of "platforms" that let developers write applications for social networks, Google had announced its OpenSocial standard, backed by MySpace, LinkedIn and others. (article 1)
This was meant to counter the activity on Facebook, which had generated a lot of applications with its own platform introduced in August. (article 1)
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Facebook, LinkedIn, users, privacy, Parakey |
Source articles
- New York Times Blog (bits.blogs.nytimes.com, 05/28/2008, 283 words)
- Facebook 'violates privacy laws' (BBC News, 05/31/2008, 814 words)
- Work your network (sfgate.com, 05/30/2008, 912 words)
- New York Times Blog (bits.blogs.nytimes.com, 05/28/2008, 333 words)
- New York Times Blog (bits.blogs.nytimes.com, 05/30/2008, 220 words)
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