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Facebook forced into U-turn over internet privacy

12 April 2012

Internet privacy campaigners have forced networking site Facebook to scale back a monitoring feature that tracked users' online purchases and alerted their friends - prompting claims it had ruined Christmas.

More than 50,000 of Facebook's 55million users signed a petition against the "Beacon" feature, which logged members' visits to sites run by affiliated companies and alerted other facebook users listed on their profiles.

The California-based firm has now promised to offer better controls over what web activity is broadcast to users' friends and improved notifications to users before releasing their data to third parties.

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