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Update: Facebook Lies to Users -- Still Tracking You Even if You Log Out!

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Submitted by rkamens on Sat, 2007-12-01 15:59.

Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in.

"I then checked the network traffic logs, and was dismayed to find that in all three cases, data about where I was on Epicurious, what action I had just taken, and what my Facebook account name is was transmitted to Facebook. The first two cases involve the transmission of user data despite "No thanks" having been selected on the opt-out dialog, and are are causes for deep concern. They pale, however, in comparison to the third case, where Facebook was receiving data about my online habits while I was not logged in, and was doing so silently, without even alerting me to the cross-site communication."

For the full report, see http://community.ca.com/blogs/securityadvisor/archive/2007/11/29/faceboo...
misrepresentation-of-beacon-s-threat-to-privacy-tracking-users-who-opt-out-or-are-not-logged-in.aspx

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