- From: Aleecia M. McDonald <aleecia@aleecia.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:36:08 -0400
- To: public-tracking@w3.org
A very nice summary, Karl. This also relates to Issue-26 on widgets and consent. <http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/track/issues/26> Aleecia On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Karl Dubost wrote: > Relevant to the work of this Working Group > I guess it relates to ISSUE-10: What is a first party? [2] > > 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. > — Logging out of Facebook is not enough, [1] > > [1]: http://nikcub-static.appspot.com/logging-out-of-facebook-is-not-enough > [2]: http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/track/issues/10 > > -- > Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/ > Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software > > >
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