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• Follow-up: Facebook's Response

  In addition to the statement we received this past Friday, we have received further communications from Facebook's privacy department, this time directly addressing the silent data transfer to facebook.com. Hi Stefan, Thanks for clarifying your concerns... Posted Dec 03 2007, 07:43 PM by Benjamin Googins with | with 1 comment(s) Tags: Anti-Spyware, cookies, beacon, advertising, facebook

• Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in.

  [Update 12/03/07 - We have received a statement from facebook, asserting that they do not use or retain any of the data which is received if a user is not logged in or does not consent. It is posted in full here ] As follow-up to Ben's look at Facebook's... Posted Nov 29 2007, 11:39 PM by Stefan Berteau with | with 20 comment(s) Tags: cookies, beacon, advertising