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Add the wrong Facebook widget and your face could appear in ads all over [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

valleywag.com » 2008 » June » 24th » Add the wrong Facebook widget and your face could appear in ads all over [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]

Tagged: facebook, widgets, socialmedia, your privacy is an illusion

Ad network for widgetmakers SocialMedia plans to serve ads in Facebook widgets and possibly across the Internet that use pictures of the ad-viewers' Facebook friends. Called "social banners," the service can only display a Facebook user's picture if that user already added a widget made by one of SocialMedia's partners, thereby agreeing to share such personal information. But after adding the … Continue Reading »

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