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Facebook Beacon Privacy Issues Worse Than Previously Thought?
An anonymous reader writes "Further developments in the Facebook Beacon affair ... According to PC World, a Computer Associates researcher claims that Beacon, when installed on participating sites, is sending data about users' activity back to Facebook, even when a user is logged out of Facebook - despite Facebook's claims to the contrary."
Yeah but it was the government doing it and 1984 represented an extreme communist/authoritarian state. If it's corporations doing it in a capitalist market where the consumer decides what they want as opposed to the government doing it and not letting the consumer decide anything except to obey or die, then the worst that could happen is on the other end of the spectrum from 1984. Free market economy and personal freedom is the anti-1984 and communism fails in practice. That was the message of 1984 and of George Orwell. Facebook is definitely indicative of capitalism and success (college dropout becomes billionaire is becoming a type of American hero in our tech driven world).