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The Facebook Economy: Deficits in Data Privacy | Center for Digital Democracy
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May 6, 9:29am
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The PDF is a really interesting look into Facebook's privacy breaches, and suggests some ways for preventing them.
"A possible solution to this problem could be a "privacy-by-proxy" system, a data-hiding scheme proposed by researchers at the University of Virginia.
These researchers have suggested that developers be given fake "placeholder" data instead of real user information. They state that 'this is possible because Facebook has control over the output of applications.
When the fake placeholder data is displayed by the application, Facebook can turn it back into the real information for the viewer to see it correctly. Users can be made anonymous with this scheme and third party developers never get to see user information.'"
I would embed the PDF in a widget but StumbleUpon doesn't allow it. Google Cache link here!
Scribd link here
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