Even if they did, I'm not so sure it would be that big of a deal (to most users anyways). I mean, Facebook has all of that data and more, and they definitely sell it to 3rd parties. Hell, you can learn anything you want about a person using their Graph API.
So even though I don't believe in it (I deactivated FB for this reason), I'm not sure how much financial benefit you can gain from <UserID> <StrawberryFarmID> TSV files which most of this data is anyways.
My point being there are many companies that rely on data mining these days. Zynga may only track <UserID> <StrawberryFarmID> today but not necessarily tomorrow.
FB is merely more blatant about it. It is my sincere wish that the US adopt a strong privacy policy like the UK's Data Protection Act (with the loopholes fixed).
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Even if they did, I'm not so sure it would be that big of a deal (to most users anyways). I mean, Facebook has all of that data and more, and they definitely sell it to 3rd parties. Hell, you can learn anything you want about a person using their Graph API.
So even though I don't believe in it (I deactivated FB for this reason), I'm not sure how much financial benefit you can gain from <UserID> <StrawberryFarmID> TSV files which most of this data is anyways.
My point being there are many companies that rely on data mining these days. Zynga may only track <UserID> <StrawberryFarmID> today but not necessarily tomorrow.
FB is merely more blatant about it. It is my sincere wish that the US adopt a strong privacy policy like the UK's Data Protection Act (with the loopholes fixed).