Facebook Caves To Privacy Protests Over Beacon

jcatcw writes "After weeks of privacy protests over its advertising system, Facebook's CEO announced that users now can turn the system off completely. CEO Zuckerberg said 'We simply did a bad job with this release.' Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, called the announcement from Zuckerberg 'a step in the right direction.'"

Re:Thank god

[WillAffleckUW]

Like the kind of people that flock to these types of social networks give two shits about privacy. They'd probably give it up for a tootsie roll in-between clicking on the dancing monkey banners.

There are no dancing monkey banners on Facebook, unless you add them to your own page.

Re:Well...

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

The temptation to cash out is just too great for most companies. The only reason why Slashdot isn't worse is because of Taco. I'm not sure why though. Does the contract that gives him full editorial control, fail to specify a system of bonuses based upon ad revenue? Or is he just that incorruptible? or I guess its possible that he just wants a fun solid job with a long term future, rather than a quick cash out. He mentioned the topic a bit during the anniversary hubabaloo, but the monetary link wasn't mentioned, although If I were him I wouldn't have mentioned it either.

Re:Just like last time...

[sporkme]

Based on information Beacon has collected, you might be interested in the following items:
He-Man Underwear 3-pack, size 8 [ebay.com]
Lara Croft Bikini Poster [ebay.com]
"Bride of Chucky" on VHS! [ebay.com]

Re:Well...

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

I've always wanted a paradoxical/ accusational mission statement.

Our mission statement: " We would like to issue this statement, that, for the record, we have no mission. So if your business gets totally screwed by our business relationship,we probably didn't plan for it to happen. Furthermore, it will probably be your fault. If you do have a mission, and you got totally screwed then its definitely your fault for failing to execute the mission."

Re:Well...

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

To Brazenly Split Infinitives, is to purposely offend any English teachers, that in their ineptitude, have mistakenly wandered into this honorable den of free thinkers. If collateral damage were to waywardly hit a grammar Nazi of the non grammar teacher type, then that would have to cheerfully be accepted as well as welcomed.

Re:Well...

[novakyu]

Nice job splitting the infinitive there, buddy.

Sentence fragment! Sentence fragment!