ComputerWorld
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Bad as it might appear to be, what Facebook is doing is less egregious than what a majority of other sites do, according to some privacy advocates. In Facebook’s case, for instance, the company at least made the information-sharing transparent and gave users an opportunity to control it, said Chris Hoofnagle, senior staff attorney at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.
“Most e-commerce companies are quietly selling or sharing information by disclosing it in the privacy policy using euphemistic terms, such as ‘joint marketers’ or ‘sister companies’ that market products of interest to the consumer,” Hoofnagle said.