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By admin 11/01/10 4:53pm

Facebook Responds To WSJ with Zero-Tolerance Privacy Policy

Following a series of Wall Street Journal articles that highlighted the ways in which some third-party applications were sharing user data with advertisers, Facebook has declared a zero-tolerance policy for any developers who sell information to data brokers.

While we determined that no private user data was sold and confirmed that transfer of Read More

By admin 10/08/10 1:48pm

Big Publishers Explain: Sorry, Protecting Users’ Privacy Is Too Expensive

Eleven of the nation’s largest online publishers — including Yahoo, AOL, News Corp. and The New York Times Co — have explained to the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus why, try as they might, they can’t keep unwanted tracking software from following their readers around and targeting them with ads.

“[T]hey say that eliminating tracking is Read More

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Facebook Responds To WSJ with Zero-Tolerance Privacy Policy

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