Facebook Beacon Privacy Issues Worse Than Previously Thought?

An anonymous reader writes "Further developments in the Facebook Beacon affair ... According to PC World, a Computer Associates researcher claims that Beacon, when installed on participating sites, is sending data about users' activity back to Facebook, even when a user is logged out of Facebook - despite Facebook's claims to the contrary."

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Re:FredDC

[RuBLed]

Well, that's why you should reload a clean image in your VM when you're going to surf at another site...

This would never happen

[Hanners1979]

I'm sure Facebook would never monitor my activity on other si

It looks like you're writing a comment criticising Facebook! Would you like to:

- Delete the comment
- Tell everyone how great Facebook is?
- Add some more useless junk to your Facebook profile?
- Spam all your friends with a picture of a 'cute' travelling bear?

Re:This would never happen

[VGPowerlord]

"Go away you paperclip! No one likes you!" -- Stewie Griffin

Uh-oh.

[martensitic]

"Slashdot has added a story to your Facebook profile."

Re:I hope this will finally make people see

[NoPantsJim]

COULD be made? Hell I made one myself just so I could find stuff faster.

You must be an officer of the law...

[LaTechTech]

"Don't Tase me, bro!"

Re:Block the "Feature"

[Culture20]

Awesome. Now that we know curry is in the algorithm, we can write an auto-blocker. I never would have thought of curry.