-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ NNSquad ] Report: Facebook keeps tracking you even after you log out of Facebook Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:53:43 -0700 From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com> To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org 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." - - - 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 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 Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com