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I feel dumber after reading that 'article'. Brushing off information gleaned through referrers because it's a 'web-wide problem' is a cop-off. It's trivial to f
by recoiledsnake 16y ago
I feel dumber after reading that 'article'. Brushing off information gleaned through referrers because it's a 'web-wide problem' is a cop-off. It's trivial to fix and Facebook will be forced to do it because of the WSJ article.
Dragging Myspace into this is nothing but a red-herring. The leak itself is proper news. I am sure Techcrunch can expose any privacy flaws in Myspace if they find some. Not sure that anyone cares about Myspace at this point though.
- joe_the_user 16y agoWell, Leak or not, what the Journal is complaining about isn't happening within Facebook at all but rather between Facebook applications and online tracking companies. And that thing is that the applications are transmitting data without "anonymizing" it properly. And as I recall, the problem of "really" "anonymizing" data is not easy at all. Another way to put it is "anonymizing" is a fairy tale, users shouldn't really don't expect it really happen and should instead protect their own privacy - at least to the extent of not revealing personally identifying when it's not necessary (though I guess there is a human urge to publish one's address and when one is away from home).