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Facebook tracks users' activities after they log out

MarrickG

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Facebook has admitted that it constantly tracks its 750 million users even after they log out.

Technology bloggers have discovered that the social networking site monitors the other webpages the users visit, reported The Daily Mail.

Engineering director of Facebook, Mr Arturo Bejar, admitted that users continue to be tracked after they log out, but was quick to point out that the data was deleted right away.

Mr Bejar explained that this is to do with the way the "like" feature works, a button which users click on to indicate whether they like something.

"The onus is on us to take all the data and scrub it. What really matters is what we say s a company and back it up," he said.

The data that is sent back to Facebook's servers include the IP address, or unique identifier of your computer, and a log of what you have been viewing.

These information help Facebook make billions of dollars each year from advertising, as such information is highly valuable.

A spokesman from Facebook said the log in and out function was for security and to prevent fraud.

He said: "We do not use this information to target adverts."

The tracking practices were exposed by Australian technology blogger Nik Cubrilovic, who found that when a user signs up to Facebook, monitoring files known as "cookies" get stored on the user's computer.

Mr Cubrilovic wrote: "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 (web) browser for Facebook interactions."

His findings have provoked furious responses across the Web.

A user wrote on technology blog CNET: "Who the hell do these people think they are? 'Trust us?' Why? Why should we trust a company that spies on us without our knowledge and consent?"

Another added: "Holy wow...they've just leapt way past Google on the creepy meter."

A Dutch researcher revealed earlier this year that Facebook was gathering browser data from Internet users who had never even been to Facebook.com.

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red amoeba

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not surprising....such data sells & worth alot...n easy to extract...

how u noe apple is not doing the same with iphone & ipad users? LOL
 

youtalkcock

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Facebook has been selling information to government agencies and giving clandestine access to information security firms so that they can spy on people from all around the world. Some of these so-called whitehat infosec firms are working for authoritarian governments, such as those of Egypt and Syria.

Everything you do on Facebook stays on Facebook regardless of your “privacy” settings, and deleting your account is impossible, even if you “delete” your account, all your personal info stays on Facebook and can be recovered at any time. Changing the privacy settings to make your Facebook account more “private” is also a delusion. Facebook knows more about you than your family.

http://www.physorg.com/news170614271.html
http://itgrunts.com/2010/10/07/facebook-steals-numbers-and-data-from-your-iph…
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johnny333

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It's become public knowledge that Google has been tracking users data. They never ever delete users data & it's stored permanently Now we find out that Facebook has been doing the same thing:eek:

It's one of the reasons I'm reluctant to use the social networking sites. There is also the risk of data loses to hackers as happened to Sony, VISA, etc. As someone who lives in a fascist state I think it's wise to be a little paranoid & learn to live under the radar of the state:smile:
 
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