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"People reputation search engine Rapleaf  has changed its privacy policy in response to issues raised regarding its association with TrustFuse, a company that sells personal data.\nWe mentioned  this briefly last week when ZDnet published an article questioning Rapleaf's privacy policy and its responsibility to its end users.  Rapleaf is a site that lets you search for friends across networks based on their email address.  It offers up information regarding the social networks they're member to, as well as the last time they were online, and other information.  Rapleaf has since added some 700 words to its privacy policy outlining its relationship to TrustFuse, which was formerly a separate part of its business for selling personal data that had been gathered from online social networks. The updated privacy policy lets you opt out of its system by sending an email to Rapleaf.  TrustFuse's website has also been removed, and the URL will redirect to Rapleaf's main site. \nDespite these changes, privacy advocates are still casting a wary eye towards Rapleaf, and the way in which it obtains the data used to find your friends from various networks.  While it has no partnership agreement with MySpace  or Facebook, and cites proprietary methods for the obtaining of data from other networks.  Rapleaf uses email addresses to cross-reference users across networks in order to power its search engine, but as the terms for MySpace clearly state that this type of search cannot be used for commercial endeavors, there are still some ethical issues that are lingering about Rapleaf.\n[via  CNet]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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