Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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Privacy on Facebook: Beacon and Beyond

INTRODUCTION

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 As noted above, Facebook has continued to aggregate data on users’ outside-Facebook activities. New developments suggest this will only continue, possibly on an even larger scale. Facebook has developed a feature called Lookalike, which targets users based on demographic similarity. Additionally, there is the looming menace of CISPA, which may allow the government to access user information (which for now is subject to Facebook’s sieve-like privacy-policy). The Beacon settlement should have created a more dynamic organization as part of the settlement. The Digital Trust Foundation has not popped up yet, but we should keep an eye out for when it does, and examine what it actually achieves in terms of digital privacy.
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Why not be brief about it, and say that Facebook was permitted to spend $6m on a tax-free lobbying operation run by their own chief lobbyist? Why not say that this means nothing whatever; Facebook spent more money on PR over Beacon, going in and coming out, than all of this money many times over? Given that there's no here here, why are you writing about it? In other words, you need to explain to the reader why the meaninglessness of this nonevent has some larger significance than its nothingness.

 
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