Enough is Enough, how much more is facebook going to monitor us?
Facebook has been engaging in a tacit warfare with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social website is allegedly violating users’ privacy. Facebook has been crucified before due to the fact that apparently it shares too much of people’s personal information. But another issue, emerged of late
A new blow to the 800million active users!!
Facebook officials stepped forward this week and actually admitted that the company has been recording a log of the webpages that each of the 800 million registered members have visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook has reportedly acknowledged that it can track what other websites its members visit, even if they are logged out of the social network site. Has facebook gone really that far?
Studies show that Facebook's engineering director have found a new way of using a tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial ones used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry. If you’re logged into Facebook, the session cookie tracks the web pages you visit, your IP, machine details, time stamps, along with your Facebook account data such as contacts, friends, and preferences via previous recorded “likes”.
http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/11/17/facebook-tracks-surfing-for-3-months/
The site claims the data collected is only used to improve its security and plug-in features and denies using the information collected to promote user-specific advertisements. They all say that the heavy tracking is needed to protect against spammers and hackers. But the Federal Trade Commission and members of Congress are not so convinced and have not abandoned the investigation yet.
When will facebook draw the line with privacy? Is it even safe to surf the net knowing that you are apart of a social networking site. How many Facebook users are aware they’re being tracked, even if logged out of the site, for three months worth of data? Probably not many...
http://techleash.com/2011/11/facebook-tracking-your-online-whereabouts/
This is not just a Facebook issue. Google has always been questioned about this kinds of things too. For now, we are just going to have to live with it. My only worries are about the future. Information control/spy is very dangerous, and each day we keep more data in the cloud.
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