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POPSFacebook Admits Ad Service Tracks Logged-Off Users Facebook Admits Ad Service Tracks Logged-Off Users Facebook has confirmed findings of a CA security researcher that the social-networking site's Beacon ad service is more intrusive and stealthy than previously acknowledged, an admission that contradicts statements made previously by Facebook executives and representatives. Beacon is a major part of the Facebook Ads platform that Facebook introduced with much fanfare several weeks ago. Beacon tracks certain activities of Facebook users on more than 40 participating Web sites, including those of Blockbuster and Fandango, Facebook's controversial Beacon ad system tracks users' off-Facebook activities even if those users are logged off from the social-networking site and have previously declined having their activities on specific external sites broadcast to their Facebook friends unclear whether Facebook plans to modify Beacon so it doesn't track and report
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POPSFacebook - the New Face of Evil Facebook - the New Face of Evil I’ve been increasingly irritated with the noise-to-signal ration Facebook creates in my life. it turns out that protecting yourself from this new attack by trying to leave Facebook is no easy task. 1. The partner site page includes the beacon.js file, sets a <meta> tag with a name, and then calls Facebook.publish_action. 2. Facebook.publish_action builds a query_params object and then passes it to Facebook._send_request. 3. Facebook._send_request dynamically generates an <iframe>which loads the URL http://www.facebook.com/beacon/auth_iframe.php and passes the query_params. At this point, Facebook now knows about the news feed item whether you choose to publish it or not. just try and leave
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POPSBlock Facebook Beacon Facebook does go far in regards to stretching the limits of personal privacy when it comes to the data that is collected. The problem however is, that even though you can choose whether or not it is made public that you visited these sites, Facebook still has the data regardless of your privacy settings. Now I don’t mean to sound like I’m tin-foil-hat-wearing paranoid, but that does seem to encroach a little past what Facebook’s role in my life should be.
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POPSMillion back comic for president comic Stephen Colbert's fake candidacy in the 2008 US presidential election on social-networking website Facebook. n nine days, more than 1m users joined an online group set up after the Colbert Report host announced his bid. Tens of thousands of other Facebook users have joined about 500 groups supporting the comic's candidacy.
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POPSMicrosoft buys 240m Facebook Microsoft has invested 240 million into Facebook. Microsoft values Facebook at 15 billion and took the step to surpass Google investment in Facebook. Facebook adds 200,000 new users each day and is a 'darling' of Web 2.0 with 15 reasons why it looks so good to Microsoft.
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