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Facebook; is it passing personal information across to other websites

A few days ago I followed a link in a friend's posting on facebook and was faintly surprised to see a list of a few of my friends in a  sidebar who had done something or other. At the time I was in a rush and couldn't follow it up but made a mental note and moved on. Today I followed another friend's link to a Washington post article, subsequently following a link in that article to a piece on prospect.org. Strangley, at the end of the article, above a bunch of the usual article comments, was a comment entry box with my name and my Facebook avatar next to it. Further up the page was a logout link. I've never created an account with prospect.org, I hadn't logged into the site - as if I could - and it's unlikely, even if I had an old account there, that I'd been auto logged in because I'm using a spanking new computer, only an hour out of the box; no auto login from months ago or anything. I also have 3rd party cookies turned off. My Facebook security is set pretty tight.

So I'm asking myself, what's going on, is Facebook pulling naughties again? Thoughts, ideas, etc? 

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  • I read on the Wall Street Journal site that Facebook had been sending information to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal data.

    However, after The Wall Street Journal raised questions about this practice, Facebook made made some immediate code changes.

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  • I read on the Wall Street Journal site that Facebook had been sending information to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal data.

    However, after The Wall Street Journal raised questions about this practice, Facebook made made some immediate code changes.

    :16215
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