Dec 28 2007
Talk about not learning from mistakes
Apparently being kicked around by 50,000 angry petition-signing users, privacy advocates, and bloggers didn't bother the company too much because Facebook is back at it again:
 Six weeks after Facebook launched a controversial advertising program that tracked its members around the Internet, the Palo Alto company is quietly testing a new system that slips links to its mobile software onto smart-phones on the T-Mobile USA network without the permission of the devices' owners.BlackBerry owners can hide the blue-and-white Facebook icon, but they can not delete it.Sheesh. Says Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy: "It illustrates a basic problem over at Facebook, which is their need to fatten their bank account is confounding their need to protect the privacy of their members."
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