Facebook confirms CA findings on user privacy research

Social Networking portal Facebook has admitted that the research conducted by CA was true and they do receive information related to their customers from third party sites even if they are logged off their Facebook accounts.

A company representative added that they do not do anything with this data as it is removed from the servers.

However, they did not confirm whether this system would be changed in the near future or not.

This data is sent as part of their Beacon advertising system which enables them to display data in user feeds related to their activities on third party sites collaborating with Facebook.

They have already changed the mechanism after massive complaints to allow users to opt out of the system.

Facebook is currently working with more than 40 third party sites on this platform.

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