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RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever

Posted by timothy on from the making-a-list-checking-it-an-infinite-number-of-times dept.

itwbennett writes "Privacy blogger Dan Tynan opted out of data aggregator RapLeaf back in 2010 — and wrote about it. At the time, opting out seemed to work well enough. But fast forward a couple of years and ... they're baaaack. While testing a privacy service called Safe Shepherd, Tynan discovered that 'not only [is he] not opted out of RapLeaf's database, they've also gathered far more information about [him] than they had before.' And it's a pretty good bet some of the data came from Facebook apps, which is a practice that the company was slapped for in 2010 and claimed to no longer do."

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  1. Re:Opt Out? by macraig · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And BTW, that page relies on no less than 10 external "trackers", according to Ghostery:

    AppNexus
    DoubleClick
    Google +1
    Google AdWords Conversion
    Google Analytics
    HubSpot
    MixPanel
    Outbrain
    ScoreCard Research Beacon
    SnapEngage

    People are quite likely collecting data on your choice to opt out....