A magazine for Harvard alumni - 02138 - obtained a raft of private data for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg - including his social security number, parents’ address and the name of his girlfriend. The magazine posted it… all of it - in PDF form on its website as a companion to a piece the mag ran on the origins of the site within Harvard. So Facebook sued. The ironic twist here is Facebook’s launch of Beacon. The service collects users activities on a variety of websites. For a time, those activities were posted on the News Feed… but Facebookers freaked out… so they made it an opt-in service. Computer Associates found that FB is even collecting the data when users are logged out of Facebook OR even if they’ve opted-out. 02138’s editor Richard Bradley blogged this about the documents: “We believe that we have a legal right to post them online and that you have a legal right to read them. Meantime, spread the word that a company which plans to collect and sell personal information about 50 million people doesn’t want one magazine to do the same about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg.”http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/03/zuckerberg-wants-details-kept-private-his-details/
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