Facebook, Myspace Get Slapped By WSJ For Sharing User's Personal Information
What a difference a day makes. Just yesterday we noted that the TIME cover story on Facebook’s privacy issues didn’t come down too hard on the company, overall.
This morning, however, The Wall Street Journal reported social networks including Facebook and MySpace have been revealing user’s personally identifiable information to advertisers. From the story:
Advertising companies are receiving information that could be used to look up individual profiles, which, depending on the site and the information a user has made public, include such things as a person’s real name, age, hometown and occupation.
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