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Anyone else notice their facebook information is being used in adverts?

AARRRGH · 2009-08-02 23:57:42

So I'm looking at a non-Facebook website tonight and what do I see? An advert with my name and photo in it. As in, and advert directed at me using my own personal information to get my attention. WTF?! I am stunned that my Facebook information and IP has obviously been shared with some advertising company. Has anyone else…

02-08-2009 11:57pm

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AARRRGH

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So I'm looking at a non-Facebook website tonight and what do I see? An advert with my name and photo in it. As in, and advert directed at me using my own personal information to get my attention.

WTF?!

I am stunned that my Facebook information and IP has obviously been shared with some advertising company.

Has anyone else noticed this?

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#2 02-08-2009 11:59pm

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Have you signed up for any of the 3rd party games and clicked "allow access to my profile"?

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#3 03-08-2009 12:02am

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They were meant to have reversed that last week. If youre still seeing ads like that report them immediately. To facebook admins, and Especially to these folk:

email: tips@consumerist.com

http://consumerist.com/5326719/facebook-bans-advertisers-from-stealing-your-photo-to-sell-stuff-to-your-friends

Facebook has firmly told app developers that it's not okay for them to steal your wife's photo from her profile page and use it to entice others into a sexy local singles dating service.

According to Facebook, this has never been allowed:

Please remember that developers have never been allowed to send user data received from Facebook to ad networks, and we take firm action against this. If you run code provided by an ad network in the operation of your application, be sure you understand what this code does.

Except of course for the part where it happened and they made money of it.

Jacking people's personal content without their consent to use in ads has never been okay, says Facebook, but now the smack is being laid down, now that the rest of the internet has noticed one month after we posted about it.

A point of clarification: in a previous post about this, we said that there was a way within the settings to opt-out of the ads using your photos in Facebook. That's just for official Facebook ads themselves, not for ads deployed by 3rd-party apps. Apologies.

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#4 03-08-2009 12:06am

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Someone else posted in relation to this a while back...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2055630040

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