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"Since the site tracks the geographic locations of log-ons..." Wow, that's scary. Did you know that Facebook has a database of every location you've logged in
by zain 17y ago
"Since the site tracks the geographic locations of log-ons..."
Wow, that's scary. Did you know that Facebook has a database of every location you've logged in from?
- robryan 17y agoUnless specifically stated otherwise most major sites would be tracking and storing IP addresses.
- dsil 17y agoThis is very common, essentially the default, it's just a matter of whether a site uses the information or not. Consider, by default apache logs have IP address, and IP address approximately equals location. Actually, that article probably means IP when they say "geographic location".
- mahmud 17y agoI just wrote about that earlier. Paypal locked me out after I logged in from 3 different countries in less than 48 hours (I wonder how they handle their Benelux users.)
- miracle 17y agoI'm a benelux user and I only log in in one country ;)
- spoiledtechie 17y agoI log my users every step in my site along with all the browser information I can. It does help with tracking and I can see some neat demographics!!!