KeithTas wrote:Northern wrote:KeithTas wrote:Ellie-Jane wrote:I don't think Facebook should be held accountable for this, no matter what verification system is put in place kids will find a way round it. The only people that should be accountable for this are those who had a duty of care for her. Who in there right mind allows a child unmonitored access to the internet and why were there no blocks in place to stop such sites being accessed in the first place?
In light of recent revelations about Facebook they are like a cancer on the WWW. I predict members will leave in droves when all is revealled about their online activities, and trust me I'm no conspriracy theorist in any way shape or form. The latest online tracking after members have even logged out is despicable, it's despicable anyway, but once you have even logged out of a site that should be it.
Also beware Google is becoming EVIL.
What do you mean recent revelations? It has been known for ages that facebook, google and yahoo track their members
The new revelation is that they are tracking members even when they are logged out of Facebook and even when you have made your account inactive.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20114 ... er-logout/Facebook is getting more heat over two controversial practices--tracking users after they log out and new automatic "frictionless sharing."
The tracking, done with cookies on users' computers, has prompted criticism from lawmakers and now a lawsuit, while privacy groups and regulators in Ireland are concerned about a new sharing feature that automatically posts user activities to news feeds without users intentionally doing so.
A blogger wrote last weekend that he discovered that his Web surfing was being tracked by Facebook even after he logged out. Facebook admitted that it personalizes content by putting cookie files on user computers that remain even when users are logged out, but told CNET earlier this week that it quickly acted to remove uniquely identifying data from post-logout cookies and that it did not store or use that cookie data for tracking.
"This admission came only after an Australian technology blogger exposed Facebook's practice of monitoring members who have logged out, although he brought the problems to the defendant's attention a year ago," according to the complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, Calif., and reported on by Bloomberg today.
The lawsuit was filed by Perrin Aikens Davis of Illinois and it seeks class-action status. It seeks unspecified damages and ask the court to block the tracking based on alleged violations of federal wiretapping, computer fraud, and abuse laws, according to the report.
"We believe this complaint is without merit and we will fight it vigorously," Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes told CNET in an e-mailed statement.
