- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:25:05 -0400
- To: public-tracking@w3.org
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
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
Received on Sunday, 25 September 2011 19:25:36 UTC