Privacy: Several Sites Caught Sharing Private Data with Advertisers
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LiveJournal, Digg, and other social-networking sites have been providing advertisers with their users’ personal information without their permission. Shared data included names, user IDs and profile information. Since Facebook requires users to sign up with their real names, this posed a greater risk for members who clicked on advertising links.
Researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and AT&T Labs first became aware of the issue in August of 2009, but changes were not made until the Wall Street Journal actually contacted the sites directly.
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