Thursday, November 17, 2011

Facebook tracking EVERYONE on the Internet.

Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg are in the news for their tracking systems once again. According
to an article on Newser.com - Facebook now tracks any Internet user who comes across a Facebook page for up to 90 days.

Facebook says that they do not use this information for anything other than improvements
on its security system and user experience. Congressmen Ed Markey and Joe Barton, sent letters to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO, asking why Zuckerberg "applied for a patent on a method
of correlating tracking data and ads." Zuckerberg responded saying, "We patent lots of things."

Are you comfortable with the direction of Internet tracking systmes (Facebook specifically) and
do you believe that Facebook really uses this information from anyone who comes across a Facebook page just for the reasons they claim?

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