Facebook Tracks You Even If You Opt Out, Says Belgian Report
An investigation has revealed Facebook seeds your computer with tracking cookies, no matter what.
If you have suspected Facebook is tracking you for ad campaigns, no matter what, all the time: You are right. A report commissioned by Belgium’s data protection agency has slammed Facebook for tracking people online, even if they are not logged into Facebook, even if they have opted out of tracking—even if they are not Facebook users at all, The Guardian reported Tuesday. The European Union has been coming after Facebook and Google for alleged anti-privacy practices for a while, but now it finally has proof that Facebook is disobeying privacy requests from users in direct violation of EU law.
Compared to national security surveillance, this is a most trusted and welcomed friend, which is a profoundly sad statement to make, I get that. …..The race was won and over before we ever positioned ourselves at the starting gate.
Ghostery for the win!
……and yet another reason I'm not on façadebook. ¬_¬
That's just the problem though +West Kagle unless you have the appropriate software blockers, even if you're not a facebook user and jump onto their website through a link/whatever they're still tracking you.
+Steve Vance
That's cool though. I have no reason to ever visit their site as I'm not on it. Plus, I have no interest in looking at a bunch of pages where folks are jumping up and down shouting "look at me, look at me". I don't need to know what friends and family are doing 24hrs a day (I don't even need to know what they are doing 7 days a week).
I talk to them as needed (or wanted) and find out all there is to know. As you might imagine I have a particular loathing for twitter. People feeling the need to yell out in public everything they do, and every thought that enters their minds (like a mass outbreak of Tourette's), and as most have zero filter between their brain and mouth [or in this case fingers], they shouldn't wonder why they keep finding their foot in their mouths). 😉
…..BTW, I love the avatar. 😛