[ NNSquad ] Report: Facebook keeps tracking you even after you log out of Facebook

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

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 (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org 
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