Facebook has created quite a stir with their new Beacon — a feature that allows third party sites to communicate user purchases and interests to Facebook and then into a user’s newsfeed. It has raised a number of valid privacy concerns, but the technology itself is quite interesting. Jay Goldman has taken it all apart to see how it works in Deconstructing Facebook Beacon Javascript.

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