Worth noting that this article wasn't an attack on Facebook necessarily. WSJ has been running a series of stories on privacy issues for weeks now, this is just

Worth noting that this article wasn't an attack on Facebook necessarily. WSJ has been running a series of stories on privacy issues for weeks now, this is just the latest story. I've read many of the articles and I have to agree with most of what they have written - many companies are in fact finding, scraping, selling and otherwise moving our personal information across the web. The bigger question is how much should we care? I really don't care if 'X' company knows that I like baseball. But I do mind if someone gets my credit card information and uses it to make purchases - someone just spent $1k on iTunes on my credit card. I'm disputing it with Apple and my bank right now - argh. I mostly respect the WSJ but I would certainly not put it past them to protect, or at least ignore a sister company like MySpace. When a lot of the right leaning media was questioning the storyline and motives of the left leaning Avatar movie, the WSJ was nowhere to be found. No surprise that News Corp owns the studio that produced Avatar.