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As always, e-mail me or send me a private message if you have any suggestions on how I can make my posts more useful. If that's not your style, feel free to contact me on Twitter (DannyDover) and/or Linkedin (Danny Dover). Thanks! I have been promising Rand all week that, yes, I'd write a post. And then we'd go drinking again. Nevertheless, with Rand on a plane, I thought it was time to get my act together and write something up.


Following Rebecca's post about Get Listed, it see telemarketing leads, kuwait telephone number data ed like a good time to write up something about an issue we at Distilled have been having with Google Local. Rand and I were talking about this after the session on universal search at SES in London that he wrote up the other day. Privacy on social networking sites such as Facebook was exposed quite painfully with the whole Beacon debacle, which was using user data both on and off site to target ads.


However, more worrying than that (to me, anyway) was a rumour I heard recently that Facebook was selling access to media companies / publishers to use user photos in news articles in exceptional situations. The story that triggered this rumour was a tragic death in a French ski resort. Soon after the story had broken, photos of the girl in question appeared in news reports. And not just low-res profile pic images that you can see for pretty much anyone from Google, but the higher res ones from her photo albums.