{"id":1572,"date":"2007-12-08T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T10:49:11","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Facebook ends transparent tracking after just 10 days of blatantly invading privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\">Facebook<\/a>&#8216;s insidious program that told a Facebook user&#8217;s friends everything the user was buying online or movies they were buying tickets to bit the dust after a mere ten days, thanks to a user uprising. See NYTimes.com yesterday: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/30\/technology\/30face.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faced with its second mass protest by members in its short life span, Facebook, the enormously popular social networking Web site, is reining in some aspects of a controversial new advertising program.<\/p>\n<p>Within the last 10 days, more than 50,000 Facebook members have signed a petition objecting to the new program, which sends messages to users\u2019 friends about what they are buying on Web sites like Travelocity.com, TheKnot.com and Fandango. The members want to be able to opt out of the program completely with one click, but Facebook won\u2019t let them.<\/p>\n<p>Late yesterday the company made an important change, saying that it would not send messages about users\u2019 Internet activities without getting explicit approval each time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Facebook and MySpace are incredibly stupid and completely insipid websites for lonely people or people with too much time on their hands. It is useful to the defense bar, however, because purported crime victims have made admissions on their Facebook or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/next\/\">MySpace pages<\/a> that defense lawyers can use against them, assuming one can get into their website.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, Facebook was sending personal information about members&#8217; purchases to all their &#8220;friends&#8221; listed on the website, without the members&#8217; permission. How they thought they could get away with this is unfathomable to me. Talk about an invasion of privacy &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}