Friday, September 30, 2011

Privacy groups and Congress want Facebook investigated for ‘super cookies’

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Groups are lobbying for another Facebook investigation regarding privacy practices.

By now, you’ve likely heard about Facebook’s alleged inadvertent cookie tracking. A hacker recently discovered soon after the new upgrades hit that some of the site’s programs remain active even once you’ve logged out of Facebook. This means regardless of whether you were logged into Facebook or not, it was able to follow what you were doing online.

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