Today the Wall Street Journal reported that "many of the most popular applications, or 'apps,' on Facebook have been transmitting users’ Facebook ID numbers to marketers and tracking companies." It focused on Facebook, but then explained that the privacy breach it was reporting on is a phenomenon as old as Web links that has become a problem with the advent of social networking in general. The … [Read more...] about Wall Street Journal: Privacy breach with Facebook apps
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Facebook passes half-a-billion mark
Five hundred million people "are now using Facebook on a monthly basis," PC World reports, which means "Facebook has a slightly smaller population than the continent of North America," and that's "enough users to put 75 people on every one of the over 6.6 million square miles of Russia, the largest country in the world by landmass." Just a couple of PC World's "Fun Facts," and this is just one of … [Read more...] about Facebook passes half-a-billion mark