Quelques jours après avoir reçu une amende record de 5 milliards de dollars, Facebook anime une nouvelle fois les internautes sur les sujets de projection de la vie privée. La société de Mark Zuckerberg est experte en la matière ce qui lui permet d’avoir un des outils publicitaire les plus puissants de la toile.
facebook is embedding tracking data inside photos you download.I noticed a structural abnormality when looking at a hex dump of an image file from an unknown origin only to discover it contained what I now understand is an IPTC special instruction. Shocking level of tracking.. pic.twitter.com/WC1u7Zh5gN
If you had any doubts that Facebook continues to play fast and loose with your data, a recent discovery by a security researcher will re-affirm your suspicions. It’s already hard enough to stop advertisers from following you around online, but this revelation sheds some light on why the privacy methods we’ve tried so far might not have been all that effective.
