
Beacon Tech
Its just not easy enough to opt-out or turn off.
Its not Blockbusters fault its facebook.
and yet they aren't getting sued.
A woman in Texas is sueing Blockbuster for using Facebook's controversial "Beacon" advertising system to reveal to her friends which movies she rented. Cathryn Elaine Harris' suit, filed 9 April, claims the video rental outfit breached the federal Video Privacy Protection Act when it participated in Beacon. She is seeking …
You sue Blockbuster for releasing your information without your consent.
You can't sue Facebook because you opt-ed in to their system.
Imagine if you didn't have a Facebook account and Blockbuster sent them your personal information... You can tell Facebook to delete the information but you sue Blockbuster for violating your privacy.
"Or point and lauch at your ex-friends as they get carted off to prison and fined lots of dollars after being apprehended while watching their precious "free" download."
It's not the download that gets you, it's the making available, and it isn't a prison sentence, it's a civil law matter.
I completely agree and think that this is thoroughly overlooked in all the facebook bashing.
There is plenty wrong with the facebook provacy setup, but I am less bothered about that than the fact that blockbusters et al can send this information out so carelessly? Just because it's facebook rather than a guy in the street does *not* make it ok for them to tell people what relationship we have without my permission. Who gets to decide this? Where am I supposed to have looked and read to say that I agree with this?