Facebook Apologizes for Beacon

The New York Times has an article on their Bits blog about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook apologizing for their Beacon program and now allowing users to opt-out completely instead of having to opt-out on a per site basis. This is a nice gesture, but I feel that Beacon should have been an opt-in program from [...]


Facebook Beacon Alert

Aaron Brazell has released a Firefox extension that alerts a user when they are visiting a site that participates in the Facebook Beacon program to better judge if they want to continue using the site and have their information shared with Facebook.