[SydneyMorningHerald] Facebook ‘erodes any idea of privacy’

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Facebook Home for Android phones has been dubbed by technologists as the death of privacy and the start of a new wave of invasive tracking and advertising. […]

Prominent tech blogger Om Malik wrote that Home “erodes any idea of privacy”. “If you install this, then it is very likely that Facebook is going to be able to track your every move, and every little action,” said Mailk.

This opens the possibility up for further gross erosions of privacy on unsuspecting users, all in the name of profits, under the guise of social connectivity,” he said. […]

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/facebook-erodes-any-idea-of-privacy-20130408-2hgkm.html