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Cyberstalking: Corporations Can Do It, Too

September 8, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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Campus Progress points out another new Facebook feature: the "development platform," which gives unnamed corporations access to a slew of personal facts, from your relationship status to "the total number of 'pokes' you have sent and/or received." Users can opt out. Still, asks Josh Rosenthal, "Who are these 'developer' 3rd party corporations and why hasn't anyone been talking about this real, new breach of privacy?"

Meanwhile, at Central Michigan University, campus police told the Student Life that stalking concerns are serious. Facebook is "taking us to a new level of police work," a spokesman said .

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