Social Networks Confront Privacy Loopholes

This word just in from The Wall Street Journal:


Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent.

The practice, which most of the companies defended, sent user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being viewed when users clicked on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By Thursday morning Facebook had rewritten some of the offending computer code.

Go WSJ! Go Rupert Murdoch, who owns WSJ -- and My Space!

Small world, isn't it.