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I Told You So: Blockbuster Sued over Facebook Beacon
In December, I wrote a post stating that Companies using Facebook Beacon as a marketing tool would get sued and demonstrated the privacy policies in effect at a number of the Beacon partners. One of those is Blockbuster, which as noted in the December post, was so over the top with it’s privacy policy. It’s,…
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Facebook, You're Banished
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting increasingly fed up with Facebook. The signal to noise ratio is getting worse everyday and I’m spending more and more time investing in something that is returning less and less value. For instance, earlier today I went in and declined 17 application requests and ignored 32 “Which…
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Scrabuloso
Alrededor de 600.000 usuarios de Facebook disfrutan regularmente de una partida de Scrabble con sus amigos. Y desde el 15 de Enero esperan ansiosamente que el problema entre Hasbro/Mattel y Scrabulous se solucione amigablemente. El problema está en que Scrabulous, la aplicación de Facebook, es una versión no licenciada del tradicional juego de Scrabble y…
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Zuckerberg, Quit Insulting Our Intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has taken one more step in the Beacon war. As we’ve noted, Facebook is wrong to not fully make Beacon an opt-in program, partner companies are wrong for releasing customer data to Facebook and by the way I made a Firefox extension that will help consumers know…
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Freakin' Beacon Firefox Extension
I took the dive into Firefox extension development today whipping out an answer to the Beacon is broke sentiment that is popping up all over the net, including here on this blog. This extension puts a little icon in the status bar that lights up in blue when on a page using Beacon technology. In…
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Companies Using Beacon Will Undoubtedly be Sued
Privacy policies. They are the walls of separation that protect users from the over-indulging nature of companies and provide strict legal protections for both the user and the company. Privacy policies are generally penned by lawyers who like writing obscure documents that do these things. Facebook Beacon, as we talked about, is a major privacy…