Petition: Facebook, stop invading my privacy!

MoveOn.org is doing everything it can to stop Facebook’s Beacon campaign. Apparently there’s a Facebook group to create protest and an online petition.

The philosophy behind Facebook Beacon is to trace user’s online activities outside Facebook and share em” via news-feeds in friend profiles. Nick’s Ironical comment sums it up - If I purchase a b’day gift for my daughter for a portal called Zappos.com it would appear in news feeds of my daughter’s Facebook account which is ridiculous. Obviously you can opt-out of notifications but this happens from your Facebook account not while you make purchases

Petition: "Facebook must respect my privacy. They should not tell my friends what I buy on other sites—or let companies use my name to endorse their products—without my explicit permission."

To sign the petition click here http://civ.moveon.org/facebookprivacy/?rc=fb_privacy

There is so much openness now that whatever we do is going to be traced online.

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