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Even with Beacon, partner sites are only sharing "activities performed by users" on their sites.
(Citysearch was an original Beacon partner, but it shut that down long ago).
Yelp CEO, and Beacon partner, Jeremy Stoppelman says, "We haven't heard anything from Google about this.
Says another Beacon partner, who also has yet to be contacted: "We started hearing about it through the grapevine.
The latter is particularly interesting because as you may remember, Overstock.com was an initial Facebook Beacon partner — something which caused some controversy, and caused the company to pull away from Beacon.
But a source familiar with the matter says that Google has contacted at least one Facebook Beacon partner, and perhaps more, in an effort to drum up support for its own initiative for OpenSocial, which it is calling "universal activity streams.
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It appears to have just started reaching out to Beacon partners.
It is not clear whether other Beacon partners are at legal risk, since the law in question only applies to video rental businesses.
But it is not clear that Google will have to change its rules or only approach those Beacon partners who share non-commercial messages.
Beacon partners are sending data indiscriminately about every single visitor to their sites back to Facebook, whether or not those people are even Facebook members.
According to one security engineer's analysis, Beacon partners transmit data to Facebook in bulk about members who visit their site.
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