Based on recent reports regarding Facebook user tracking, we have decided to appropriately title this weeks David Fletcher comic: ‘The Darker Side Of The Cloud”…
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Lawmakers seek FTC probe of Facebook post-log out tracking
Two U.S. congressmen today asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook’s practice of tracking users even after they have logged out.
“When users log out of Facebook, they are under the expectation that Facebook is no longer monitoring their activities. We believe this impression should be the reality. Facebook users should not be tracked without their permission,” said the letter (PDF) sent to the FTC by Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Joe Barton, a Texas Republican.
“Facebook was able to obtain this information when users visited websites that connect with Facebook, including websites with ‘Like’ buttons,” the letter said. “There are an estimated 905,000 sites that contain the ‘Like’ button.”
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By David Fletcher
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David Fletcher was born in England in 1952. At school he excelled at drawing cartoons in the margins of his maths book and falling asleep. On leaving school he studied production engineering for five years then jumped on an aircraft bound for New Zealand where he's lived ever since. He was employed as an illustrator and cartoonist by New Zealand's largest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, for three years, but for the last thirty years he's been pretending to work from home as a comic strip artist. He draws two daily strips called The Politician and Crumb the Blackbird, also several weekly strips. His cartoons are syndicated to Europe, Britain, US, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
