Apart from the ethics of divulging confidential information, Myspace has the cheek to say ‘data can not identify a person’
If so, how are they are marketing advertising space?
Is it that advertisers go in without knowing which profiles they are addressing to?
If so, it is the most stupid thing to advertise with out data.
Note that Myspace has not denied divulging information .
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MySpace has been sharing with its advertisers data that can be used to identify user profile pages, but the company doesn’t consider that to be a problem.The company said it did not consider the data to be information that could identify a person, partly because MySpace doesn’t require members to use their real names. The social networking site acknowledged transmitting information to advertisers that included a user ID and the last page viewed before a user clicked on an ad.
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