NL Provice of Utrecht buys citizen Facebookprofiles for marketing by offering free WiFi.

The Dutch province Utrecht has signed a deal with City Wireless that allows people free wireless. They can log in with their Facebook profile, which is then harvested for information for marketing purposes. City Wireless has since changed its’ homepage, removing the grizly details, but the Dutch paper still has the screencaps.

Article in Dutch.
Gemeente Utrecht koopt Facebookprofielen burgers – Webwereld.

Thought about privacy? Hell no!

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