Thursday, December 8, 2011

Facebook tracks what you do online even when you’re logged out


According to a technology new of TopNews.in,facebook can track what you did online even if you are logged out of the social networking giant. When the user is logged out of Facebook, even if the user delete its tracking cookies, the account maintain its information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.

It means that any time you visit a web page with a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending personally identifiable information back to Facebook. Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post."The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions".

Cubrilovic said, he tried to contact to facebook his disvery,but did not get reply. He also stated that there are many risks to use facebook about privatecy. There are many question about the meaning of not really logout. Then, how will Facebook handle to address privacy issues and how to manage their privacy to implement clear policies?

News sources;
http://www.topnews.in/facebook-tracks-what-you-do-online-even-when-you-re-logged-out-2344326

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