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In Pursuit of Openness: Facebook Admits It Tried to Smear Google on Privacy

May 12, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

At a time when Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is being praised for her political deftness, the company appears to have made a serious PR blunder in trying to plant anti-Google privacy stories. Facebook admitted to the Daily Beast Thursday night that it was the client behind an exposed whisper campaign by a PR firm to plant stories about Google social products scraping user data–a concern various people have determined was overblown. More background here and here. Update: Facebook and the PR firm put out statements.

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Anonymous

Really? Because Facebook have never made any mistakes regarding privacy have they? -.-
http://www.tptbh.com/ NO-OK.com TheOn.it MsnOn.it

Google does worse things! like this one: b i t . l y / 9 r k V h R
http://twitter.com/mike_ferre Miguel Ferreyra

I look forward to Facebook to change its privacy system … Never aprofile should be public, is logical, we see this in Japan. Few usersof Facebook when you should have many.I look forward to Facebook to change its privacy system … Never aprofile should be public, is logical, we see this in Japan. Few usersof Facebook when you should have many.