How to setup secure and private Facebook browsing
On September 25, Nik Cubrilovic posted a terrific analysis looking at how Facebook uses cookies to track users even when they have signed out of the service. His findings about Facebook cookies tracking raises yet more red flags about subscriber privacy.
Dave Winer wrote a timely piece yesterday morning about how Facebook is scaring him since the new API allows applications to post status items to your Facebook timeline without a user’s intervention. It is an extension of Facebook Instant and they call it frictionless sharing. The privacy concern here is that because you no longer have to explicitly opt-in to share an item, you may accidentally share a page or an event that you did not intend others to see.
The advice is to log out of Facebook. But logging out of Facebook only de-authorizes your browser from the web application, a number of cookies (including your account number) are still sent along to all requests to facebook.com.
Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit.
If you would like to secure your Facebook account, Nik Cubrilovic explains how to improve privacy, disable features where your Facebook information can be shared with third-party sites and finally setting up your browser for private sharing.
via [nikcub.appspot.com]
