Was Facebook’s Privacy Move A Blunder Or Just Premature?
Written by Evan SchumanDecember 4th, 2007
Now that Facebook is having to face its about-face (readers, please forgive me), the privacy versus marketing debate is just revving up.
This RetailWire story nicely sums up the action, but the essence is that Facebook tried sharing--without permission--customers' purchases with people on their friends list. Did Facebook cross the line? I'd rather say that they made this move inappropriately. The difference is that I do agree with Facebook that something very similar to this program could work, but it needs to be presented properly and at least start with more-than-ample opt-out options.
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Is there really an improvement between a mag swipe and contactless tap if multi-factor authentication is required?
-Ed
