How Facebook is Tracking Your Internet Activity

Do you have something to hide europium?

With all these paparazzi about, are you kidding?

i myself have nothing to hide, but the united states contitution guaranties every citzen the right to privacy.

when we give up one inalienable right, the rest will soon topple.

I love pixel beacons...the most underutilized and discreet method of online tracking invented.

You "...love pixel beacons" because....???

Internet security is a hobby for me...a branch off of my work. It's interesting to see the looks on a person's face when you show them within a few mouse clicks online how easy it is for someone to track/collect/dispense personally identifiable information across the internet.

We all are susceptible to this, and beacons are a great way to show how easy it is. What regular non-tech person would even suspect such a thing? They can also be a way to get your information on the internet and track it without paying for a service to do it.

what your doing does'nt or should'nt be legal.

Hunh? How do you figure that?

If you are looking for a conspiracy theory...

You do know that the U.S. Government has always owned the U.S. Postal service? Do you really think that they didn't catalogue everything they wanted to for decades? Do you think they are not doing it today? Why would that stop at publicly shared information (The Internet and World Wide Web)?

If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns. If law abiding citizens have nothing to hide only the outlaws will be hiding.

there was a time that the net was considered "hands off" as it concerned privacy. now everyone from "uncle sam" to your neighbor can collect and use or abuse everything a person has posted online and public and private records.

my credit card and personal information was stolen and i ended up buying two tickets to istanbul.

the supreme court should, " but never would" have the courage to test this case as it applies to the first ammendment.

" THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY!!!" was considered to be one of the most important amendments of the constitution by our fore-fathers.

let's fight to preserve it.

"I" bought a whole new wardrobe and a stereo system...in Germany....I lived in Virginia.

i'm don't or care to posess the knowledge to undermine a persons RIGHT TO PRIVACY".

should i remove my avatar from this site?

i would think that any country with hacking capabilities could totally shut the usa down to the point that we are total defenseless. i think this has already happened many times, but it was covered up.

as long as we continue to use computers to manage and control our vital energy, communication, military, ect. systems, we are totally vulnerable to attack from countries that most people would consisder to be non-threating.

Luckily the U.S. military doesn't rely on the Internet for Global Dominance. Having worked for the government for 25 years, I personally don't give much credence to government cover-ups...I don't think we are that talented.

i'm not sure if your comment was meant to be serious or sarcastic.

Serious

I put pixel beacons in some of my posts on CR4 (and many other sites) so I can keep track of them as they migrate across the 'net. I can gauge their popularity in search engines by using a unique naming structure and MD5 hashes.

Doesn't everyone?

yes, i know. inclulding mine? alias "ardele"

I am not sure what that means. Who or what is ardele?

the homeland security agency has been keeping all the information that honest patriots and not so honest citizens devulge, whether it's online or otherwise.

the agency has a multitude of super computers to store this information. it's my understanding that they plan on keeping your personal infomation for decades.

hell, they're probably monitoring this site.

when g.w.bush signed the patriot act, he also took away our civil rights and made the united states consitution null and void.

orwell was right, but a few decades off.

Final straw as far as I'm concerned. I'm shutting down my Facebook account. I wonder if that will stop this tracking. Bet you it doesn't, even after I leave Facebook, I would not be surprised if the tracking continues, for profit.

i tried closing my facebook account months ago. good luck

Hey europium,

It says here, you had pepperoni pizza for supper last night.

Inhaled it, I did...

Can you break a..........forget it, keep the change..........

lmao!

You don't have to use Facebook to be tracked by it, example I am not logged intoFacebook right now but as I write this using peer blocker shows me Facebook and manyothers are tracking my every move. From my own research if they have a login or linkwhich they do on almost every site you visit then they know what your looking at ortalking about indirectly.

Keep your third party cookies to a minimum and disallow java scripting. That will take care of a lot of it. Those in-page tracking apps have to be able to see your cache and the items in it to properly track you. You're right, just logging out does not change the way other sites use your facebook data.