Cookie Monster on Facebook Cookie diet

The only person I know of that really likes cookies is Cookie Monster.  He will take any cookie and enjoys all of them.  He likes chocolate chip, peanut butter and sugar cookies but I am not so sure he would like the cookies that Facebook is serving.

Josh Constine of Inside Facebook writes, “Facebook’s business is built on trust, but that trust has been shaken over the past few weeks by criticism and speculation regarding how it uses browser cookies to get data about users.”

He further writes, “A lack of thorough documentation explaining what each of its cookies does has led some observers to assume that the company is tracking offsite browsing behavior in order to target ads.”

If Facebook is not using this information to track its users why did it file for a patent that contains the line “A method is described for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain”?

If they are not tracking you now, I’m sure they will be in the future.

Read more here.

With that info,

Safer Surfing!