According to an independent test, the Facebook Beacon program is spying on you in more ways than previously imagined, and you may not be able to do anything about it. Even if you opt out, even if you log out, site affiliates (online retailers you visit) are reporting back to Facebook. In response to massive protests by facebook users, Facebook has backed down on displaying some of this information to your friends without asking you. However, it is still collecting the information, although so far Facebook refuses to admit this. And it is collecting more information than was previously thought. And it is collecting it even if you have opted out of the program. And it is collecting it even if you are not logged in to Facebook while browsing.
Conceivably, some people might have a hard time understanding why I’m so upset about this. Perhaps an analogy to organic dairy farms would help you get my point. Okay, what if Facebook were surreptitiously collecting the personal information of organic dairy farm cows? See!!!??? Wait… let’s try again. This program is exactly the same as if Facebook were one of those non-organic dairy farms, with the cruel, uncomfortable milking machines and the cows were locked in tiny pens, and pumped full of hormones, and also they chopped the cows into tiny bits with unsanitized chainsaws for no reason. And posted all the bloody, nasty bits to the cows’ friends’ Facebook news feeds without their permission.
It’s exactly like that.
Srsly. If Facebook doesn’t stop, I’m out. No more Facebook.
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