As you all know, facebook is a huge database that has a ton of personal information about each and every one of its users. This article addresses how Mark Zuckerburg the CEO of facebook, is under some pressure because its partners, such as zynga (who is popular for the games “Farmville” and “mafia wars”) are abusing how they treat the personal data of facebook users. As stated in the article, “The Wall Street Journal recently noted many of Facebook’s most popular applications transmit identifying information — in effect, providing access to people’s names and, in some cases, their friends’ names — to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies.” Demand for this information is extreme and software developers like zynga have great access to details about facebook users and companies will pay lots of money to get this information. In the article it says “Facebook must stay ahead of this cyber-market and its partners by enforcing stronger compliance to policies that protect its users’ information.”
This is really important that this issue is being addressed because it needs to be acknowledged. Facebook users are supposed to be private but their privacy is being violated and I don’t think that’s right.
In our digital age, I think that privacy isn’t like what it used to be. There are over 500 million users on facebook all with updated information about themselves and you hear all the time about identity theft because people are less careful about the things they share on the internet. Privacy doesn’t exist in our digital age and social networking sites are making privacy more difficult to obtain.
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