Many partners in Facebook's Beacon seem reticent to address the raging privacy controversy surrounding the ad program, resorting to terse, vague statements or opting for outright silence when asked for comment.
The partners seem to be betting that the furor over Beacon's broad ability to track visitors to their sites will die down, and that they don't need to elaborate on their participation in a program many see as intrusive.
As long as facebook continues this practice the furor over beacon will not die down on this blog.I will continue to post articles on the subject as long as the matter continues.
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Facebook's CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg has profusely apologized for missteps in the design and deployment of the Beacon ad system, but he remains unrepentant about what privacy advocates consider a particularly egregious feature.
Absent from Zuckerberg's mea culpa Wednesday is any indication that Facebook plans to modify the system's ability to indiscriminately track actions of all users on external sites that have implemented Beacon.
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The social-networking site confirms that its Beacon ad service is more intrusive and stealthy than previously acknowledged.
Facebook's controversial Beacon ad system tracks users' off-Facebook activities even if those users are logged off from the social-networking site and have previously declined having their activities on specific external sites broadcast to their Facebook friends, a company spokesman said via e-mail over the weekend.
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