weeks - 8:13 pm on Nov 30, 2007 (gmt 0)

When we read about "privacy fears" on the web, we typically think of Russian code monkey's trying to capture our bank account passwords, etc.

This ain't that: This is all of your friends knowing your every activity. "Beacon" was going to tell them when you bought movie tickets online and what movie you were going to see, for example. And what music you were purchasing. Etc.

This makes it all too clear that Facebook's young punks are just that: punks.

For those of us with websites which need more than the typical info about our users (i.e., credit card, age, phone number), Facebook's irresponsible actions have done us a real disservice by creating an atmosphere of distrust.

I got suckered like this in the early days of the web going to work with an email driven application. It was a very good product, but then the spam wave hit and I couldn't get my mother to sign up.

I am more than a little concerned about this. And you should be as well.