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Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University

Day: November 29, 2007

Facebook Changes Beacon to How it Should Have Been Designed in the First Place

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As expected, Facebook has announced changes to their controversial Beacon advertising system where users' off-site purchasing activities can be automatically displayed in the Facebook feed. The New York Times reports these changes: Stories about actions users take on external websites…

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Facebook Mulling Privacy Changes, But Will It Be Sufficient?

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BusinessWeek reports that Facebook has circled the wagons and might be considered changes to their controversial new Facebook Ads platform: In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool that publicizes users' Web…

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