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Slashdot | Logged In or Out, Facebook Is Watching You

“Researchers at software vendor CA have discovered that social networking site Facebook is able to track the buying habits of its users on affiliated third-party sites even when they are logged out of their account or have opted out of its controversial ‘Beacon’ tracking service. Responding to privacy concerns, Facebook has since moved to reassure users that it only tracks and publishes data about their purchases if they are both logged in to Facebook and have opted-in to having this information listed on their profile. But in ‘extremely disconcerting’ findings that directly contradict these assurances, researchers at CA’s Security Advisory service have found that data about these transactions are sent to Facebook regardless of a user’s actions.”

There’s more on this in the Zdnet article.

I remember when I noticed what Skype was doing to my computer when I’d disconnected Skype, and everyone says… “oh, no. it doesn’t do that. they said so…” hee hee.