Exposure of shopping habits provokes protests
Sunday, 2 December 2007
Some Facebook users, upset by a new feature on the US site that makes their online shopping habits public, are organising online against it.
Founders of Facebook: Stop Invading My Privacy claim they get 1,000 new electronic signatures every few minutes, The Guardian reported.
"Facebook must respect my privacy," the petition reads. "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."
Facebook members can opt out of commercial sites that they use. But critics say they must do so for every site and the opt-out feature is not easy to find.
Owen Van Natta, Facebook's revenue officer, said the company is used to getting a lot of feedback from its users and to adapting new features to conform with what users want.
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UPI
Founders of Facebook: Stop Invading My Privacy claim they get 1,000 new electronic signatures every few minutes, The Guardian reported.
"Facebook must respect my privacy," the petition reads. "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."
Facebook members can opt out of commercial sites that they use. But critics say they must do so for every site and the opt-out feature is not easy to find.
Owen Van Natta, Facebook's revenue officer, said the company is used to getting a lot of feedback from its users and to adapting new features to conform with what users want.
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UPI