Força Facebook dos protestos a mudar

Muitos usuários ressentiram-se por Facebook agarrar e compartilhar de dados

Os membros de Facebook forçaram o local social do trabalho em rede para mudar a maneira que um sistema controverso do anúncio trabalhou.Mais de 50.000 usuários de Facebook assinaram uma petição que convidam a companhia alterar ou abandonar sua baliza que anuncia a tecnologia.

Quando os usuários de Facebook compraram em linha, ilumine amigos ditos e negócios o que olharam ou comprado.

Muitos consideraram os dados que compartilham para ser um intrusion que os expusesse a mais scrutiny do que era confortáveis.

Privacidade por favor

In response to the demands, Facebook’s 55 million members will have more control over whether data about what they do online is used for Beacon.

Before the changes, Beacon was an “opt out” system and many complained that they missed the chance to avoid using it when it was introduced in early November.

Now Beacon will be an “opt in” system that only tracks data if explicit permission is granted to Facebook to do so.

More than 40 websites, including Fandango.com, Overstock.com and Blockbuster, signed up to use Beacon software on their webpages and report what Facebook users did when they visited.

Beacon embarrassed many doing Christmas shopping online

Activist site MoveOn was at the forefront of protests against Beacon and set up the petition to gather signatures on 20 November.

“It also says a lot about the ability of internet users to band together to make a difference,” said Adam Green, a spokesman for MoveOn.

Facebook apologised for its actions via a letter on its website.

“We’re sorry if we spoiled some of your holiday gift-giving plans,” read the letter. “We are really trying to provide you with new meaningful ways, like Beacon, to help you connect and share information with your friends.”

Industry commentator Om Malik said Facebook users had to be certain to opt out completely from Beacon otherwise Facebook would still collect data from partner sites - even if that data was not shared more widely.

The changes to Beacon may not be the last that Facebook has to make to the technology.

Two rights groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy, are believed to be compiling a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7120916.stm

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