Facebook has admitted that some of its applications have been transmitting user information to advertising companies.The admission comes after the US newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, uncovered that the company was violating its privacy policy.The paper found that popular applications were providing access to Facebook members' names and, in some cases, their friends' names, to companies that build detailed databases on people in order to track...
Congressmen demand Facebook explain privacy breach
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An apparent privacy breach by Facebook has attracted the attention of a couple of members of the US Congress.A Democrat and Republican have written to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg asking him to explain what they call a "privacy breach".Facebook has acknowledged some third-party applications on its site have passed on user identification information.The US congressmen say given the number of Facebook users, these apparent breaches are a cause...
Microsoft: IE9 will never run on Windows XP
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Microsoft has ruled out putting Internet Explorer 9 on Windows XP, leaving millions of PCs open to Mozilla and Google browsers providing hardware-accelerated rich-internet.Ryan Gavin, senior director of IE business and marketing, said Microsoft would not put IE9 hardware acceleration features in the current version of its browser, IE8, or back port IE9 to older PCs running Windows XP.Gavin, speaking to The Reg as Microsoft released the...
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