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All FAIR's blog posts offer links to several websites where you can save and archive the posts you like, share them with friends, and recommend them. Each website listed below offers a service that is free, and requires only that you register. But as an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the effects of corporate media ownership, we believe it is important to understand not only of how these sites work, but also how these various companies will treat your personal information.
Please note that all of these sites use cookies, record personal data whenever it is submitted, and will release this information if required to by law. They may also transfer your personal information if they are acquired or merge with another company.
Here's a brief description of what each service is, how it works, and some information about how it will use your personal information.
- Digg
- Del.icio.us
- Yahoo
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Digg - http://digg.com
Digg users share content by submitting links to the site, digg.com. The community then votes on how interesting it finds a given article. Articles with lots of votes, or "diggs," rise higher on the site's main page and topical subsection pages. Digg also lets users categorize the content they are submitting and label it with descriptions.Digg, which is independently owned, does not share any identifying information with third parties, but the site and “its authorized agents” may retrieve and store non-identifying information such as IP addresses. Digg uses cookies to maintain its site, and Digg's advertising partners may place cookies on users browsers to collect anonymous, non-personally identifiable information. Though Digg has a reputation for vigilance in removing postings planted by corporations, the site has also been accused of removing postings critical of its sponsors.
Del.icio.us - http://delicious.com
Del.icio.us enables users save all their bookmarks online, and to "tag" their bookmarks with descriptive category names. Del.icio.us users can see how many other people have bookmarked the same pages, and they can look at those users' bookmark collections.Del.icio.us, which is owned by Yahoo!, registers users’ IP addresses, access times, browser type, and the URL from which users navigate to the site, among other information. Del.icio.us uses cookies to store and track information about users, and shares this information anonymously with third parties. The site also uses web beacons to collect non-identifying information which is reported to Yahoo! and other third parties.
Reddit - http://www.reddit.com
Reddit allows users to submit news articles and other online content for others to see. Users give articles a thumbs-up or thumbs-down.Owned by Conde Nast, Reddit automatically collects information about users’ computers, including the user’s operating system, browser software, referring website, and IP addresses. Reddit routinely sells aggregated, anonymous data about users to third parties, and uses cookies to control the display of ads and track usage patterns on the site. These cookies may contain personally identifiable information and may be shared with third parties. Additionally, advertisers may place cookies and web beacons on users computers which will collect and store non-personally identifying information about the user’s computer and online activity.
Yahoo! - yahoo.com
Yahoo! allows users to save, tag and share bookmarks in a manner similar to other social bookmarking sites.Yahoo! collects personal information and information from cookies and web beacons for internal uses. Yahoo! also provides this information to advertising partners who cannot themselves legally sell the information to a third party. Yahoo! has been criticized for the prevalence of adware-- software from Yahoo!’s advertising clients that a user may have installed on their computer without realizing it by accepting online offers.
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