arstechnica.com — It's no secret that most websites share some amount of usage data with their advertising partners, but that data is usually anonymized. Not so in the case of most social networks, though, according to a recent study. An ad partner could easily grab your unique profile identifier and find out nearly everything about you.
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admiralacbarSep 25, 2009
/tinfoil hat
Closed AccountSep 25, 2009
Beware. Apostrophe is a jealous, fickle goddess and gets offended easily if you don't use her in the right places.
ninhSep 25, 2009
If you keep your stuff on the lawn, people are bound to see it.
killamockingbrdSep 26, 2009
I'm with you on that. Every Monday I have to spend 10 or 15 minutes untagging myself from retarded photos people tagged me in from the weekend. If I want to be tagged I'll tag myself thankyouverymuch. I always thought there was a setting to make yourself untagable.
winginSep 26, 2009
"Digg, and LiveJournal (among others) are all guilty of "leaking" personally identifiable information (PII) to partners, according to a recent study". I don't know whether the study is accurate or not, but I didn't expect to see Digg on there.