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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
But the most persistent, egregious and consequential sinner here is Facebook (naturally). In 2007, Facebook opted its 20,000,000 users into a new system called "Beacon" that published a public feed of every page you looked at on sites that partnered with Facebook:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%5FBeacon
Facebook didn't just publish this - they also lied about it. Then they admitted it and promised to stop, but that was also a lie.
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