In the name of privacy, Google launched its query encryption update, which limited the data SEOs can track in Google Analytics. While encrypted search sounds fair, this has infuriated many in the SEO community in part because the update disrupts...
While the issue has since been resolved, select data is still tracked and recent Facebook patent information indicates that all logged-out tracking may be intentional. Facebook reports that the remaining cookies exclude personal identifiers and are...
The UK government has come out and said they don’t trust Facebook with customer data. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest men in the world, and will get even richer next year, when Facebook is expected to go public.
However, the data that is shared with Facebook and with third-party app developers should be worrisome for the average user. They are collecting data to market products to you. This type of data, collected at such a personalized level, is a...
The icing on the cake is that Facebook said it will not share your data - but for the basic directory - with any applications, should you opt for that platform turn off. What instant personalization meant was that Facebook would share some of your...
Results can be filtered by company and job position, or in fact any piece of data made public via Google Profiles. The bone of contention seems to be over the fact that Facebook applications are no longer obliged to dump data collected on any user...