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. You can prevent stories from being generated...

Following the publication of the last two blogs about Facebook's Beacon program and the data we observed being sent to facebook.com , we have received the following statement from Facebook corporate communications, which addresses the use of the data: "When a Facebook user takes a Beacon-enabled...

[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 Beacon system, I began investigating the...