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Friday, May 13, 2011
Facebook's Stealth Attack on Google Exposes Its Own Privacy Problem
A big corporate PR firm, Burson-Marsteller, tries to entice USA Today to lambaste a Google feature called Social Circle on privacy grounds. It also encourages a security blogger to write an op-ed attacking Google on the product. Instead of taking the bait, the paper consults experts who say Social Circle is small potatoes compared to more pressing privacy stories. The paper publishes a story about the Burston "whisper campaign" against Google on behalf of a secret client.
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