A report today in Melbourne’s newspaper, The Age has revealed that, “Whenever you visit a web page that contains a Facebook button or widget, your browser is still sending details of your movements back to Facebook. Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit,”.
Others have compared Facebook’s changes to Bentham’s panopticon – a design for a prison where the guards can see all inmates but where the inmates never know whether they’re being watched. The result, applied to Facebook, is that real-time sharing means we always feel like we’re being watched and this then influences our behaviour.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/facebook-tracks-you-even-after-logging-out-20110926-1ksfk.html#ixzz1Z6LR0Is0
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About Renata Rowe
Deputy Head of Campus/Head of Secondary, Ivanhoe Grammar School, Plenty Campus
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