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Sporkman
May 22nd, 2010, 02:41 PM
Facebook, MySpace caught releasing user data

Fri May 21, 5:47 pm ET

In a seemingly never-ending string of damaging disclosures about its users' privacy concerns, Facebook has reportedly been releasing user data to ad companies that hadn't even asked for the info...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100521/tc_ynews/ynews_tc2189
sydbat
May 22nd, 2010, 05:54 PM
WOW. That's why I don't use face...hang on...my farmville app is needing attention...brb...
gnomeuser
May 22nd, 2010, 06:00 PM
LiveJournal and Digg were bad boys as well, let's not let them off the hook even if it is fashionable to be truthful about Facebook. Share the hate.
dragos240
May 22nd, 2010, 06:00 PM
Doesn't concern me. I don't put my data online..... or do I.......
tmette
May 22nd, 2010, 06:06 PM
Well that's no good...I had my bank account numbers on there along with my SSN.
infestor
May 22nd, 2010, 08:36 PM
this article might be true or not but anyways this privacy issue will definitely blow up as a huge scandal someday.
Frogs Hair
May 22nd, 2010, 08:37 PM
I don't subscribe to either , but it's good to know.
pwnst*r
May 22nd, 2010, 09:51 PM
LiveJournal and Digg were bad boys as well, let's not let them off the hook even if it is fashionable to be truthful about Facebook. Share the hate.

I'm glad you pointed that out. That article, to me, read that livejournal and digg were part of the reporting of the circumstances, not the involvement of.

Thanks.
ice60
May 22nd, 2010, 11:10 PM
vindication
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6858972&postcount=39
speedwell68
May 22nd, 2010, 11:32 PM
I deleted my Facebook account ages ago. The whole concept of it didn't sit well with me. I am a fan of Twitter and I am very careful about what info I release on there.
tmette
May 22nd, 2010, 11:41 PM
Eh, I got rid of Myspace years back because I though it just sucked. I liked the fact that Facebook was only college kids, but then they opened up to everyone. Now I rarely use Facebook to communicate. I check it just about every day, but that's mainly from habit of checking it every day in college.

Not sure why I still have it. Maybe to keep in touch with people after college who I knew from classes, but never really got phone numbers for.
Ebere
May 23rd, 2010, 01:43 AM
Well that's no good...I had my bank account numbers on there along with my SSN.

Me too.

And what's going to happen to all those nude pics of me with the midget clown ?
jetsam
May 23rd, 2010, 01:47 AM
Sorry. This is the issue thread. I need to be careful where I tread.
Nythain
May 23rd, 2010, 02:08 AM
So somewhere in Beverly Hills california, Rune D'Shyznit is getting moar junk mail :P
jetsam
May 23rd, 2010, 02:38 AM
The thing is, I'm pretty sure the overflow from... "that party"... I think they've reconstructed it and are keeping it in a bank vault... underneath the secret labs. Like... testube baby actually is a problem.