Monday, June 16, 2014

Week 7- Facebook Is Going To Start Tracking You Even More Closely

I recently posted about a blog I found on the Read/Write feed entitiled, "Facebook Can Now Spy On You Surroundings Via Your Phone's Microphone" written by Selena  Larson. The article discussed a new Facebook feature where they can now automatically identify TV shows and music you are listening to in the background when updating your Facebook news feed status.Well I am back to discuss another way Facebook will be catching your personal information!

A blog posted 4 days ago entitled, "Facebook Is Going To Start Tracking You Even More Closely," again posted by Selena Larson shows that Facebook is at it again. According to Larson, "the company will now be tracking your browsing and activity on third-party sites and applications to serve you up even more personalized ads." Users will receive a notification as seen below. Facebook has always produced ads based on the pages you like or share, but now they will actually produce advertisements based on websites you visited. Can we say another invasion of privacy?

If you are not interested in Facebook being able to track the websites you visited, there is a there are do-not-track settings available on iOS and Android devices. However, Facebook does not honor the do-not-track settings that you can place on your web browsers. "According to a Facebook spokesman, the company doesn’t honor do-not-track requests from browsers because there is no set industry standard" (Larson, 2014).

Larson,S (2014, June 12) Facebook Is Going To Start Tracking You Even More Closely. ReadWrite. Retrieved June 16, 2014 from http://readwrite.com/2014/06/12/facebook-tracking-websites-ads#awesm=~oHlY1C99a95zwf




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  1. UnknownJune 24, 2014 at 7:21 PM

    Wow, Mercedes, this is creepy... I notice more and more people are deleting their Facebook accounts and this is one reason why. I did see this Facebook notification recently and was bothered by it. Many people are increasing their use of twitter or instagram to communicate and cutting back on their use of Facebook. I think Facebook is going too far to make an advertising buck and are turning people off.

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