Article title: Facebook Reaches deal Over Deceptive Behavior Allegations
Article author: Associated Press
Url of article:http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/29/facebook-reaches-deal-over-deceptive-behavior-allegations/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fscitech+%28Internal+-+SciTech+-+Mixed%29
Summary of Article: Facebook as been giving out information about it's users lives and giving them to commercial business, to advertise their products to us. Without and user consent. Apparently the founder of Facebook didn't think it's wrong because it was just getting some advertising on the site. Not to suffer any punshiment Facebook agreed to submit audits that shows it's privacy setting are being informed every other year for the next 2 decades.
Relevance to class: Users privacy is really important to an audience when creating any site. Putting ads on the site on for user is fine, but now when your using their private info to market to them. Most ads people on the net run into are due their searches. This is something to be considered when building the next best thing how well can your private information can be stored.
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