Ryan Block » evil http://ryanblock.com Editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: gdgt. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:37:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Oh, so that’s why Facebook Beacon is so evil http://ryanblock.com/2007/12/oh-so-thats-why-facebook-beacon-is-so-evil/ http://ryanblock.com/2007/12/oh-so-thats-why-facebook-beacon-is-so-evil/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:56:41 +0000 Ryan Block http://www.ryanblock.com/2007/12/oh-so-thats-why-facebook-beacon-is-so-evil/ Facebook Beacon shot
Logged into Facebook (yeah, I finally started an account a couple of months back to watch the Engadget stuff on there) and saw this. Kind of a duh moment because I followed the whole Beacon controversy and all, but I’ve never used Facebook enough to notice how much of a completely seamless, fantastically engineered, and revolting invasion of privacy Beacon is. I also didn’t realize they’re referring to these Beacon snippets as “stories,” which is a really finessed way of phrasing the reality of the “feature”: information about my personal life that I never explicitly gave you or your partners permission to share or syndicate.

Oh yeah, and Merry Christmas!

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