Blockbuster's advertising with Facebook = illegal

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   11 Dec 2007 ~ 4:52pm Thrax Lolz, water on mars.
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   11 Dec 2007 ~ 5:07pm CB Wouldn't that be nullified anyway because the user has to agree to tie their BBO account to their FB account?
   
   Also, my Netflix account tells all my friends what I've rented, but only because I clicked the agree button when I started adding friends.
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   14 Dec 2007 ~ 11:13am the_technocrat apparently this is in regards to Facebook's decision to turn Beacon on by default, and Blockbuster is a participant in the Beacon advertising program.
   
   Since then, Facebook got in a lot of hot water for publishing info from 44 'partners' automatically to people's feeds and made Beacon opt-out, but the damage has been done, and supposedly they could be held liable for the "limited" amount of info they published to people's feeds.
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   14 Dec 2007 ~ 5:30pm alusdra The feed thing is creepy and sort of irritating anyway, so maybe this will slow them down on crazy new Facebook ideas. (What's wrong with the old stuff *insert old man-esque grumble* )