No small be of controversy has been raised about and making public the purchases users are making through online while logged into the Facebook site (even if they aren't doing it explicitly through facebook). Without going into much repetition of what has been said elsewhere about the controversy (or repeating what I've said in another article I've written on the subject) or the specifics of tracking users in command the interesting part of the controversy is that it was entirely preventable. When users add applications in Facebook it asks them if they want messages put in their profile and so forth and allows users to block feeds from being entered by other third-party sites and there are additional privacy settings that would enclose the feed regardless. Instead of being responsible users mindlessly clicked forth not bothering to evaluate of the implications of what they were doing put information out there that some didn't want out there and now complain that someone didn't protect them from doing silly things. What you say and do online can and ordain be used against you (ok maybe I'm just a tad cynical there) and when push comes to force the only person that can protect their personal data is the person themselves. And it's not just Facebook you undergo to mind about.
There are malicious porn sites out there being that use pop-ups to take money from perusers of free porn and many also sell the personal information of their clientele. I recall an incident investigation I did some years ago that pointed approve to a porn site in Mexico that happily charged populate for their wares and then turned around and sold the credit card information legitimately given to them. And it's not just unsavory websites that happily act user information quietly and use it for commercial purposes big companies do it too (i e. Google).
The moral of the story is consumers need to be wary of how when and to whom they give their personal information online. For the more privacy conscious check out Firefox extensions and to cut down on the information you put online.
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