“Facebook collects all content that is typed into its website, even if it is not posted, a tech consultant has discovered,” Ben Rossi reports for Information Age.
“In December 2013, it was reported that Facebook plants code in browsers that returns metadata every time somebody types out a status update or comment but deletes it before posting,” Rossi reports. “At the time, Facebook maintained that it only received information indicating whether somebody had deleted an update or comment before posting it, and not exactly what the text said.”
“However, Príomh Ó hÚigínn, a tech consultant based in Ireland, has claimed this is not the case after inspecting Facebook’s network traffic through a developer tool and screencasting software. ‘I realised that any text I put into the status update box was sent to Facebook’s servers, even if I did not click the post button,’ he wrote on his blog yesterday,” Rossi reports. “He found that a HTTP post request was sent to Facebook each time he wrote out a status, containing the exact text he entered.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Facebook. Taking creepitude to a whole new level.
Let’s be careful out there.
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