Facebook, Foe of Anonymity, Is Forced to Explain a Secret

Facebook, it seems, doesn’t always practice what it preaches

Now, Facebook is being taken to task for trying to conceal its own identity as it sought to coax reporters and technology experts to write critical stories about the privacy implications of a search feature, Social Circle, from its rival, Google. The plan backfired after The Daily Beast revealed late Wednesday that Facebook, whose own privacy practices have long been criticized, was behind the effort. It didn’t help that some of the technology experts ... Full Story »

Posted by Ellie Kesselman - via Google News (Sci/Tech), Jeremy Caplan (t), Jason Samfield (t), Johan Jessen (t), Donica Mensing (t), Malorie Jae Lucich (t), urmi das (t), miker1717 (t), Tshiung Han See (t)
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Posted by: Posted by Ellie Kesselman - May 13, 2011 - 6:17 PM PDT
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Ellie Kesselman
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by Ellie Kesselman - May. 15, 2011

Insightful summary of actual chain of events, which were complicated and not easy to get sorted out, Not original, as story was covered extensively by many other sources.

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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - May. 15, 2011

“Doing this anonymously is an obvious contradiction of Facebook’s oft-stated values,” said David Kirkpatrick, the author of “The Facebook Effect,” a book about ... More »

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Ron. Adams
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by Ron. Adams - May. 16, 2011

More gossip (decently sourced, at least) from Silicon Valley in the Facebook vs Google penis-size competition.

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