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Arrington To Journal: Leave Zuck ALONE!!!

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington takes issue with The Wall Street Journal, which has recently published a series of investigations into Facebook and its perceived privacy violations -- the most recent of which ran Monday. "The inmates are now running the asylum," Arrington says of The Journal and the many news outlets (including this one) that picked up the paper's report. "We'll put aside the fact that no mention was made of the Wall Street Journal's sister company and Facebook competitor MySpace," writes Arrington -- which, we should mention, isn't actually putting aside the fact at all.

Arrington goes on to insist that "Most people in tech, let alone the general population, have no idea what the [Journal] article is even about." Um, what is it about? "Sometimes identifying information about you -- your name and maybe your friends' names -- is theoretically being passed on from Facebook to apps and then to advertising networks," Arrington explains. "The only real concern is that all that data can also be tied to you doing something with a third party app. So in addition to your profile information, the database also gets to know that you like Farmville."

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