Facebook founder fumes over ID leak02138 magazine in hot waterBy Nick Farrell: Monday, 03 December 2007, 7:20 AMSOCIAL Notworking site founder Mark Zuckerberg has thrown his toys out of the pram after 02138 magazine published his personal details online.According to the Kara.allthingsd bog, Zuckerberg is incandescent with rage after the magazine published his application to Harvard University which contained Zuckerberg’s Social Security number, the full name of his girlfriend and the address of his parent’s house in New York.The mag, which boasts Harvard alumni as its reader, ran a yarn about the origins of Facebook at Harvard. It showed all sorts of documents from a Massachusetts court, to back it up.Unfortunately the magazine forgot to black out the more sensitive personal information in all places at first.Richard Bradley, executive editor of the magazine said it was a 'regrettable error' and the data had since been taken down.That could have been the end of it. But Facebook does not want the rest of the information contained in the news story out in front of the great unwashed. It insists that the documents were supposed to be sealed, however 02138 said it got them legally by going to the court.Facebook has written to the Judge in the case saying that its orders had been violated. It wants the book thrown at the magazine.However Facebook might want to be more forgiving. The outfit is in trouble over its ad schemes called Beacon. Beacon tracks your purchases on external sites and sends the information back to your Facebook profile’s news.In other words a company which plans to collect and sell personal information about 50 million people doesn’t want one magazine to do the same about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. µ
