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Facebook tracking is under scrutiny

Facebook tracking is under scrutiny
In recent weeks, Facebook has been wrangling with the Federal Trade Commission over whether the social media website is violating users' privacy by making public too much of their personal information. Far more quietly, another debate is brewing over a different side of online privacy: what Facebook is learning about those who visit its website. Facebook officials are now acknowledging that the social media giant has been able to create a running log of the web pages that each of its 800 million or so members has visited during the previous 90 days. Facebook also keeps close track of where millions more non-members of the social network go on the Web, after they visit a Facebook web page for any reason. STORY: Facebook targeted with porn, violent images To do this, the company relies on tracking cookie technologies similar to the controversial systems used by Google, Adobe, Microsoft, Yahoo and others in the online advertising industry, says Arturo Bejar, Facebook's engineering director.

Nik Cubrilovic Blog - Logging out of Facebook is not enough Important Update: Facebook has responded and issued a fix for this issue. See the follow up blog post "Facebook Fixes Logout Issue, Explains Cookies" Dave Winer wrote a timely piece this morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a users intervention. It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing. The privacy concern here is that because you no longer have to explicitly opt-in to share an item, you may accidentally share a page or an event that you did not intend others to see. The advice is to log out of Facebook. Here is what is happening, as viewed by the HTTP headers on requests to facebook.com. Note: I have both fudged the values of each cookie and added line wraps for legibility Cookie: datr=tdnZTOt21HOTpRkRzS-6tjKP; lu=ggIZeheqTLbjoZ5Wgg; openid_p=101045999; c_user=500011111; sct=1316000000; xs=2%3A99105e8977f92ec58696cf73dd4a32f7; act=1311234574586%2F0

Leeuwarder Courant verplicht reageerders tot Facebook – Dat zouden meer sites moeten doen? Op een artikel reageren met je pseudoniem ‘Moeke1970′, ‘oproerkraaiii’ of ‘ropper123′? Op DNR kan het nog, maar op de website van de Leeuwarder Courant is dat vanaf 1 november verleden tijd. Wie zijn mening wil geven over het nieuws op de Friese krantensite, heeft voortaan een Facebookprofiel met de eigen voor- en achternaam nodig. Volgens de aankondiging is het inmiddels een beetje ouderwets om nog anonieme reacties toe te staan: “Met de komst van netwerksites als Facebook en Hyves is de vanzelfsprekendheid van anonimiteit op internet voorbij. Miljoenen mensen begeven zich tegenwoordig onder hun eigen naam op het wereldwijde web.” Maar dwingt de Leeuwarder Courant dan iedereen die wil reageren tot het aanmaken van een Facebook-account? En dus hebben ze een geniale list bedacht: het blijft mogelijk om anoniem te reageren op het nieuws! Is het nou eigenlijk een goed idee om het probleem van de anonieme ruziemakers op te lossen met een verplichte inlog via Facebook? Voordelen: Nadelen:

This article discusses privacy in social How the New Facebook Drives Sharing, Traffic and Actions Recently I bought a brand new SLR camera. It had all the right features,18 mega-pixels, interchangeable lenses and high definition video. I didn’t do much research but purchased it because a work colleague who is a expert and passionate photographer recommended it to me. After reading a compelling novel I am sitting around over a coffee and tell my friend that the book is so good that I couldn’t put it down! I hear a catchy tune on the radio or on Facebook and I have to tell my friends about it and also share it on my Facebook page. The power of social proof and word of mouth drives a lot of our actions. Facebook wants to take these personal recommendations from offline to online and take word of mouth to a whole new level. A social graph of world of mouth and actions! Facebook Wants to Own Your “Verbs” In September Facebook announced some changes to its technology called the “Open Graph“. This makes it easy to discover what your friends are listening to and enjoy the music as well! 1. 2. 4.

Facebook tracks what you do online, even when you’re logged out Updated 10pm Pacific with comments from Facebook. Entrepreneur and hacker Nik Cubrilovic reports that Facebook can track the web pages you visit even when you are logged out of Facebook. According to Cubrilovic’s tests, Facebook merely alters its tracking cookies when you log out, rather than deleting them. Your account information and other unique identifiable tokens are still present in these cookies, which 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. “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. “They definitely have the information stored,” Cubrilovic told VentureBeat in an interview today. Cubrilovic’s claims are based on his analysis of HTTP headers sent by browsers to Facebook.com.

What Facebook's New Features Mean for Journalists Most of the changes that Facebook announced at its f8 conference have gone into effect (even though we're still waiting for Timeline). In general, new Facebook tools create opportunities for journalists to evolve their personal brands and beats. At Friday's Mashable Media Summit, Facebook's journalist program manager, Vadim Lavrusik, explains how the social network's new features can help journalists. “Profiles and subscribe are going to be the most useful for journalists that are posting as themselves,” says Lavrusik. He suggests these users review their profile settings if they plan to start using Facebook publicly. Oftentimes, their privacy settings may be so restricted that their profiles won't appear in public search. Apart from individual journalists, larger-scale media organizations are reaping the benefits of the new Facebook. On the other hand, some of us at least want to try to use Timeline.

This is a news article on how Facebook uses It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short 25 September 2011 When you own a domain you’re a first class citizen of the web. A householder and landowner. What you can do on your own website is only very broadly constrained by law and convention. If you use a paid-for web service at someone else’s domain you’re a tenant. When you use a free web service you’re the underclass. The conclusion here should be obvious: if you really care about your site you need to run it on your own domain. But it’s no longer that simple. Anyone who’s ever run a website knows that building the site is one thing, getting people to use it is quite another. Traffic used to come from three places: the real world (print advertising, business cards, word of mouth, etc.), search engines and inbound links. Social networks have changed all that. Not so long ago you had to be on MySpace if you were an up-and-coming band. Many of the most valuable conversations around technology and many other fields happen on Twitter. This is where I draw the line.

Journalists This webpage covers vulnerability and risks of Facebook's Eerie Goal: Why Timeline Changes Everything For those out of the loop, Facebook just introduced the Timeline at its recent F8 Conference. Besides the obvious changes in aesthetics thanks to the Sofa acquisition, Timeline alters everything from the purpose of the Facebook profile, to the way Facebook is pushing users to rethink their own privacy. TechCrunch recently published an article about Why The Timeline Changes Nothing. Well, they’re wrong. The timeline changes everything. What’s Changed: Enter Timeline: Your Facebook profile is now a landing page, quickly displaying what’s important in a way that compromises About.me‘s purpose. Timeline also marks a change in the way Facebook rolls out redesigns. An Eerie Goal? The most important change, in my opinion, is how Timeline is a major step towards Zuckerburg’s vision: highly public information. For older users, information that was previously buried in the past is now easily accessible and stalker friendly. Let’s take this even further. Imagining Dystopia For A Moment…

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