Facebook Says User Data Sold To Broker

"Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice.

The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers' blog Friday, follows an investigation by Facebook into a privacy breach that The Wall Street Journal reported in October."

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I am not much of a conspiracy nut, and I am generally a pretty trusting person, but I have quit on Facebook, and I feel that this is making my decision all the better.  I know that Google and everyone basically sell our information, but I don't tie my name or friends to that data.