Facebook Employee: Site Tracks Your Every Move

[mlopinto2k1]

Is there a publish on Facebook link around here somewhere? 😉

 

[mlopinto2k1]

The only thing I don't like about this is that Facebook should say everything upfront about what they save in DETAIL. It would be up to the discretion of the user to continue.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]Clintonio[/nom]I used Facebooks own (and nicely hidden) deletion tool to eliminate my account two nights ago. Felt good. Can't stand the place.[/citation]
You sure you "deleted it"? I have done this a couple times and if you go back and log in with your "old" user name it will let you start your account back up. That is unless you found something to DELETE your account permanently?? If so, please share.

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]kinless[/nom]Mostly sensationalist fodder. Almost all companies want to track user habits on their website in order to see how it is being utilized. This is standard in the world of metrics. Just about every site you go to records your visitation path and that information is in turn analyzed and influences the direction of how that website could evolve in the future.And honestly, I'm sure the FB message database is encrypted pretty well, just like any other high-profile company. And I would assume they have safeguards from letting unauthorized employees in there. (I would hope, anyway.)[/citation]We all know what assuming does.

 

[Guest]

If they want to know about my social life so be it. Do I care, nope!

 

[michaelzehr]

I've always lived by the rule that I shouldn't be surprised if everything I do online ends up on the front page of the newspaper the next day. (Although with newspaper readership what it is these days, that's keeping things pretty private!)

As for looking at all of a user's cookies, the tomsquide link posted says the opposite. It doesn't say that facebook has access to all yoru cookies, but rather that a 3rd party ad can get access to your facebook profile.

 

[KC8DKT]

Did anyone find info in the links about

"It copies all your cookies on your computer every time you log on to facebook."

"ALL MY COOKIES" would access non-FaceBook info. If true, this would be a killer lawsuit! "This was done before by a music download site and there was a lawsuit about 2yrs ago"

 

[Guest]

Well... It is not okay to invade your privacy, online should not mean open-line. The Government records everything now but that is not okay either. Demographics are valuable BUT companies should be forced to declare clearly how they track and use your information. It is not a simple case of... "if you have nothing to hide - you have nothing to fear", that is simply a disgraceful abuse of a fundamental rite to the requirement of having your permission. Only Gordon Brown listening in his lamp-post would disagree!

 

[Guest]

Facebook is very handy for those with access to its data. One of its primary purposes is to generate a world-encompassing database of facial recognition information. Every time you tag yourself or someone else, you are allowing the government to identify you. Next time you walk past one of those security cameras that uses facial recognition software, don't be surprised if it matches you to your Facebook account. Six degrees of preventing you from ever being anonymous again, slaves.

 

[nebun]

it's their web site, they can do whatever they need to do in order to protect themselves in case someone is trying to sue them. thanks to a broken judicial system in the big old USA

 

[bin1127]

Why do people post stuff online and insists making it 'hidden'? I would've thought social networks encourage socializing instead of driving people to pretentious acts of exclusivity.

 

[Guest]

Lets start a group on Facebook saying Stop Using Facebook becuase of privacy concerns !

 

[andybird123]

as soon as you put anything online, you can never take it back, as hard as you try to delete something, someone could have already seen it and copied it

people should bear that in mind with all websites if they want to try to keep something "private"

even emails, you never know who someone might forward it to

 

[CoryInJapan]

GOod thing I never use Facebook.I bet myspace does the same thing.I been using that for years though.

 

[jednx01]

Wow this is a total shock. Who ever saw this coming? lol

 

[beehew]

[citation][nom]loomis86[/nom]Beehew, The cookie info was reported here on this site. facebook tracks your cookies. Go ahead and check this link. So...how do you like your crow, dipshit?http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Social [...] -4723.html[/citation]
That article you cited reads something that is a far cry from "tracking everything your computer does!!!11!!!"
We're talking about FB here, so I think we can all agree that you need to get a grip. Heaven help your mom on the day she cancels your WoW account...

 

[invlem]

In the end its up to the users to limit what they put on their facebook account. I use Facebook but nothing I post (picture or text) is in anyway going to affect me if some random stranger sees it.

I assume anything I put on the site can be seen by the world, and frankly to think otherwise is very shortsighted.