> Facebook, in addition to knowing what you do, what you've liked and who you're connected to on Facebook, also has a history of pretty much every Website you've visited since they introduced the "Like" button.
And unfortunately they refuse to produce this history when asked (as is required by EU privacy law).
In any case it should be interesting to see how they will implement this: Their tracking like button seems to have survived largely based on the fact that people don't know about the tracking. When it comes under scrunity from privacy commissioners (for example in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany), it unsurprisingly seems to be considered to violate privacy laws. Without a similar mechanism it will be hard to serve personalized ads, but general awareness of Facebook's (and other's) privacy practices seems to be growing...
And unfortunately they refuse to produce this history when asked (as is required by EU privacy law).
In any case it should be interesting to see how they will implement this: Their tracking like button seems to have survived largely based on the fact that people don't know about the tracking. When it comes under scrunity from privacy commissioners (for example in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany), it unsurprisingly seems to be considered to violate privacy laws. Without a similar mechanism it will be hard to serve personalized ads, but general awareness of Facebook's (and other's) privacy practices seems to be growing...