Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
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Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#2Surely everybody on HN knew that already?
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#3I have a few questions.
1) “Facebook’s intrusion could have easily been blocked, but plaintiffs chose not to do so,”
This seems like a dangerous precedent. So if we can block surveillance attempts and we don't try, then it's our fault?
> “The fact that a user’s web browser automatically sends the same information to both parties does not establish that one party intercepted the user’s communication with the other,”
This makes no sense. Nothing happens "automatically", someone wrote the code for that to happen, in this case, Facebook.
But, at the end of the day it's just an embedded thing in a bunch of websites. I don't see anyone suing Google about AdSense. I mean I despise Facebook, but unless they're doing something more nefarious than getting a GET request on page load, then I'm not sure that I care enough. Get a blocker.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#4Not a surprise.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#5>Australian internet security blogger Nik Cubrilovic first discovered that Facebook was apparently tracking users’ web browsing after they logged off in 2011
After reading that (in 2011) I decided to block all third-party cookies.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#6Proper English should have been: "Facebook may track your browsing even after...".
The judge can rule about lawfulness, otherwise it looks like they are a investigative reporter that just found out about the technical capability to track users in such a way.
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#8>Australian internet security blogger Nik Cubrilovic first discovered that Facebook was apparently tracking users’ web browsing after they logged off in 2011 After reading that (in 2011) I decided to block all third-party cookies.
The other side is not stupid, there are far better ways to track users than cookies, and blocking them takes a lot of effort.
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#9That's not all. In NY state, they ruled that can artist can take pictures of you in your home through your windows:
https://fstoppers.com/photojournalistic/supreme-court-rules-...
Re: Facebook can track your browsing even after you've logged out, judge says
#10>Australian internet security blogger Nik Cubrilovic first discovered that Facebook was apparently tracking users’ web browsing after they logged off in 2011 After reading that (in 2011) I decided to block all third-party cookies.
The other side is not stupid, there are far better ways to track users than cookies, and blocking them takes a lot of effort.
What better ways than cookies is there to track users ? AFAIK, it's the most unique fingerprint you can get of a user. Everything else is probably going to be a lot less precise.