Searchpeers » social networking http://www.searchpeers.com Boston-Based SEO and Internet Marketing Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:25:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google AdWords “Accidentally” Uses Facebook Users’ Personal Information http://www.searchpeers.com/google-adwords-accidentally-uses-facebook-users-personal-information/2007/11/20/ http://www.searchpeers.com/google-adwords-accidentally-uses-facebook-users-personal-information/2007/11/20/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:00:39 +0000 Kevin Church http://www.searchpeers.com/google-adwords-accidentally-uses-facebook-users-personal-information/2007/11/20/ Google has confirmed that its AdWords campaigns received data from a popular Facebook application called Compare People, including users’ age, gender, city, ZIP code, favorite music, favorite movies, favorite TV shows, favorite books, “about me,” activities, interests, and political views. While it appears that no personally identifiable information has been stored, it’s in clear violation of the social networking site’s TOS.

Thanks to Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook, who brought the story to my attention.

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