So says hacker Nik Cubrilovic anyway, after he discovered during a series of tests that Facebook alters its tracking cookie code the moment you log out, instead of deleting them. Then, when a user being tracked in this manner heads to a web site that contains a Facebook button or widget, the browser continues to send "personally identifiable information" back to Facebook.
"With my browser logged out of Facebook, whenever I visit any page with a Facebook like button, or share button, or any other widget, the information, including my account ID, is still being sent to Facebook," Cubrilovic wrote in a blog post describing the find today. More here.
7 comments:
Delete those cookies, fellas!
Ok, that's easily infringement of privacy right there.
Gotta hate Facebook.
There's a Chrome extension to prevent that, it's very helpful.
I hate facebook!
The Social Network was right.
Auto Delete cookies every night alreay, now i gotta do it after using facebook? lame!
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