Mark Zuckerberg Red in the Facebook - Yahoo! News
Mark Zuckerberg Red in the Facebook - Yahoo! News
Montgomery said that one line in Zuckerberg’s post is particularly telling: “If you select that you don’t want to share some Beacon actions or if you turn off Beacon, then Facebook won’t store those actions even when partners send them to Facebook.” Just because Facebook isn’t storing the data doesn’t mean that it and its partners aren’t analyzing user activity.
What’s interesting now a days is that there are still people who think the things they do on the web isn’t mined somehow. Whether it is the sites you visit based on your DNS requests, the government, your ISP or the posts you put up on your blog. As soon as any amount of data hits a server that you do not control (i.e. as soon as it leaves your computer, and even that’s questionable) someone else owns it, so you might as well get over it. Even if you encrypt everything, the owners of the servers and even the fiber can have a copy of it. Even with the strongest encryption, there are people who work on breaking it.
What does this all mean? Forget about privacy online. That ship sailed a long time ago. It isn’t called the Internet for no reason. We are all connected all the time. If you don’t want the world to know something about you, then you should never, ever let that piece of information be recorded, no matter whether that is telling a friend a secret or writing it in a blog. C’mon people, you all learned this in 7th grade when you told your best friend that you had a crush on the girl next door and he went and told her best friend.
