The social-networking site confirms that its Beacon ad service is more intrusive and stealthy than previously acknowledged.
Facebook's controversial Beacon ad system tracks users' off-Facebook activities even if those users are logged off from the social-networking site and have previously declined having their activities on specific external sites broadcast to their Facebook friends, a company spokesman said via e-mail over the weekend.
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this is just scary
looks like google is having a real competitor when it comes to datamining. ;)
It is scary all the information that is collected on us througout our daily tasks.
steven
Boy, this burns me up. I'm going there right now and close my account. I've never really liked Facebook anyway, and now to find they've been tracking me. I hope they can't still track me after I sever my ties with them. Thanks for posting about this Steve- I had no idea what they were doing.