Facebook is poised to start accumulating member
browsing and app-usage history, especially that submitted by advertisers from
their own cookie mechanisms, as part of its advertising program, despite saying
in 2011 that it wouldn’t. Oh, there is a
complicated opt-out. All of this is laid
out in recent media stories, such as Kashmir Hill’s missive for Forbes, here. The writer gives an interesting example of
how this would work with singer Beyonce.
I’m not into automating all of my life on
smartphones enough to feel very much affected.
But I noticed with some interesting this morning an Electronic Frontier
Foundations story maintaining that everyone should learn to use TOR, and that “TOR
is for everyone” (link). EFF gives an example where a user
needs to keep medical or mental health issue browsing out of the hands of
anyone else. I think the practical
risks to me are remote. Maybe there’s
always the outside risk of being framed.
But imagine in a family, a teenager doesn’t want his parents to see
unusual ads based on her browsing.
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