Facebook Sued over tracking cookies!

Facebook is back in news with their new act of tracking cookies, the recent reports was made by a group in US who did find that the tracking cookies from facebook were still active after the logout of their respective facebook accounts. 

Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovic found that when a user logs out of facebook the program doesn't remove the tracking cookies instead, it modifies itself and is still resident on the client machine. Further, these tokens maintain information and unique tokens to identify users.

Facebook has confirmed this flaw and has mentioned that the immediate version of its software has fixed this issue. But the complainants are now moving to the US Federal Trade Commission, to investigate the facebook tracking cookies. The news was reported on Sydney Morning Herald. The complaints also mention that the recent ticker format and timeline feature has further breached privacy by combining biological information in an easily accessible format.

According to the report, the lawsuit that has been filed by Perrin Aikens Davis, of Illinois, seeks class status on behalf of other Facebook users in the US. 

Davis seeks unspecified damages and a court order blocking the tracking based on violations of federal laws, including restrictions on wiretapping, as well as computer fraud and abuse statutes.

Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes, however, said in a statement that this 'complaint is without merit' and that they 'will fight it vigorously'.

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Facebook Introduces pre-approval of Photo tags

San Francisco: Facebook to introduce pre-approval for tagging your name on any photos posted by friends, earlier the tradition was that any of your friends could tag a photo of you and you might know it quite late, although you can remove the tag later after viewing the tag.

But there has been continuous requests from users to have this removed, now the users will be provided the option to approve the tag and then have the post published with your name. Speaking on this facebook officials did mention that this wont intercept the option of your friends in adding a photo of you, instead this is effective only for photo tags.

The option will be available to all users without changing any further settings on their fb account.

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