[WG-InfoSharing] Fwd: [ PFIR ] Report: Facebook keeps tracking you even after you log out of Facebook
Judi Clark
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Report: Facebook keeps tracking you even after you log out of Facebook
http://j.mp/phUnyY (Nik Cubrilovic)
"But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the
web application, a number of cookies (including your account number)
are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. ***Even if you are
logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit.***
The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser,
or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions."
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Chrome "Incognito" mode should be a help dealing with this. Of
course, most users don't know what Facebook is doing, so they wouldn't
be the wiser.
I view Facebook's new "track everything you do" Open Graph technology
to be among the most essentially privacy-invasive -- and potentially
dangerous to users -- development, perhaps in the history of the Net.
The major problem is that by eliminating the need for persons to
explictly decide what to share, users are sending out a continuous
"stream of consciousness" that has little or no contextual
underpinning, and can be easily misconstrued either in real-time or
retrospectively.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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