Facebook gives users' names to advertisers
Found on The Register on Thursday, 20 May 2010
Facebook has been giving advertisers data that they can use to discover users' names and locations, contrary to its privacy policy.
Advertisers were getting reports whenever users clicked on their ads, as is typical across the web. However, Facebook and MySpace's reports contained the URL of the user's profile page, which often included their real name or user name.
Major changes to its privacy settings are expected after it decided to publish users' private information, and IM transcripts showed CEO Mark Zuckerberg calling those same users "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data.
At least Mark was pretty correct with that message.