Yesterday, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an apology via his blog, and announced major changes to the Beacon system, effective immediately. These changes are good news, and go a long way to address privacy concerns, including statements that they immediately delete information which is sent...

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...