{"id":466,"date":"2009-09-22T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T11:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techsatwork.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T05:31:11","slug":"facebook-finally-stopping-beacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Facebook finally stopping Beacon !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a> has finally decided to end the Beacon advertising system. It took a <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2008\/04\/suit-accuses-blockbuster-facebook-of-privacy-law-violations.ars\">class action lawsuit<\/a> to get facebook to make the final decision. I always wondered why would a social networking site collect all that information and publish it.  It always bothered me and found it interesting to see what some of my facebook buddies rent and bought. Well, I am glad Facebook has taken the right step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has finally decided to end the Beacon advertising system. It took a class action lawsuit to get facebook to make the final decision. I always wondered why would a social networking site collect all that information and publish it. It always bothered me and found it interesting to see what some of my facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-transparent-header":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techsatwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}