Facebook to share more user data with advertisers

Found on The Register on Thursday, 29 October 2009
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Facebook has rewritten its privacy policy to cut out legal jargon and has indicated it plans to broaden the types of user data it sells to advertisers.

User data will be "anonymised", the new policy says.

"Most advertisers already do this in other places on the web. Should Facebook provide this, we'll continue to respect your privacy by not sharing your information with advertisers, and we'll anonymize any information we receive."

Yes, because the other attemps at "anonymising" user data has proven to be very successful. Just ask AOL.