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| Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You                         |
|   from the damn-addictive-scrabulous-and-cute-iris-chang dept.     |
|   posted by timothy on Thursday July 17, @14:50 (Social Networks)  |
|   http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/17/1833212 |
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kaos07 links to this ZDNet story, according to which “Researchers at
software vendor CA have discovered that social networking site Facebook
is [0]able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated
third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have
opted out of its controversial ‘Beacon’ tracking service. Responding to
privacy concerns, Facebook has since moved to reassure users that it only
tracks and publishes data about their purchases if they are both logged
in to Facebook and have opted-in to having this information listed on
their profile. But in ‘extremely disconcerting’ findings that directly
contradict these assurances, researchers at CA’s Security Advisory
service have found that data about these transactions are sent to
Facebook regardless of a user’s actions.”