MoveOn attacks the privacy policy of the social networking site.
209,000 Israelis are currently members of FaceBook, but they now face a threat from an unexpected direction. Iraq War protest group MoveOn claims that FaceBook's platform allows advertisers to sell goods to subscribers buy placing customized ads in users' conversations. MoveOn calls this a "gross invasion of privacy".
FaceBook said, "We encourage our users to respond to new products. MoveOn misinterprets the nature of Beacon, our advertising service.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on November 25, 2007
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