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The Harmony Guy has posted an interesting article highlighting a vulnerability in the Compare People application on Facebook. This is significant given that the application has close to 700,000 people and close to 10 million people have added the application. This means that Google technically has
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1 year ago
who cares if asense is the software I use to provide my targeted ads? Its the best Ad network out there righ tnow.. and as an application developer i have no way of providing targeted ads on my site using the new facebook ad programs... so they need to step up before more data goes to google...
1 year ago
This is a little overblown - we're feeding random bits of information from the profile (and not personally identifiable stuff, user IDs, or the whole profile, to do ad-targeting via Google_hints. Many apps are doing this with many advertising networks.
Also, Google has assured us that they do not cache or store any of this data.
Still, until we make sure that it's not a real violation, we're disabling it.
1 year ago
I'm still not sure if transmitting the data to another application without notification or consent would be consistent with the TOS to begin with, but Facebook will have to answer that question. I appreciate Compare People's responsiveness to all this, though.
Either way, I think this again shows users how much systems like AdSense can collect and track information about them, so it's good for people to be aware of it.