Comments on: With Beacon, Facebook is not the problem http://rwandering.net/2007/11/30/with-beacon-facebook-is-not-the-problem/ The blogged wandering of Robert W. Anderson Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:24:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Donut http://rwandering.net/2007/11/30/with-beacon-facebook-is-not-the-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-184120 Donut Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:54:07 +0000 http://rwandering.net/2007/11/30/with-beacon-facebook-is-not-the-problem/#comment-184120 Your conclusion doesn't answer the other points you stated in your assumptions and discussion. Evil it is not, ethically dubious I would argue yes! The issue is, if you opt out of one site, your details are passed to another. Does one have the right to be up in arms about Facebook. I'd say yes. With the partner sites they are as equally as bad. But, even if you opt out Facebook still get the information to use internally. For this reason it has created the uproar. Your conclusion doesn’t answer the other points you stated in your assumptions and discussion. Evil it is not, ethically dubious I would argue yes!

The issue is, if you opt out of one site, your details are passed to another. Does one have the right to be up in arms about Facebook. I’d say yes. With the partner sites they are as equally as bad. But, even if you opt out Facebook still get the information to use internally. For this reason it has created the uproar.

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