Logging out of Facebook is not enough

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This is not a joke. More and more says that Facebook is the perfect espionage too, the best ever created.
Even this year, "they" tried to give Facebook the legitimacy they needed: therefore they even made a movie about it.
The release of the new Facebook still hide some goodies that will let others to spy you.
Anyway, this will made you think twice before uploading pictures or real personal details to this global database.


Logging out of Facebook is not enough

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. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit. The only solution is to delete every Facebook cookie in your browser, or to use a separate browser for Facebook interactions.

More
http://nikcub-cache.appspot.com//loggin ... not-enough

And more
http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?nid=2005 ... d=&bid=-17
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/0 ... g-experts/

[Xarex]

Google probably does this too. Knowing about the habits of everyone brings in millions of dollars per year. The few seconds it takes to clear cookies is not going to slow down any business on their part.