{"id":5954,"date":"2014-06-17T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5954"},"modified":"2014-06-17T21:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:00:46","slug":"its-complicated-facebooks-history-of-tracking-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5954","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Complicated: Facebook\u2019s History of Tracking You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/its-complicated-facebooks-history-of-tracking-you\">Julia Angwin<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years people have noticed a funny thing about Facebook&#8217;s ubiquitous Like button. It has been sending data to Facebook tracking the sites you visit. Each time details of the tracking were revealed, Facebook promised that it wasn&#8217;t using the data for any commercial purposes.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;No longer. Last week, Facebook announced it will start using its Like button and similar tools to track people across the Internet for advertising purposes.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Here is the long history of the revelations and Facebook&#8217;s denials:<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Facebook&#8217;s Mark Zuckerberg introduces the &#8220;transformative&#8221; Like button\u2026<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;April 21, 2010 \u2013 Facebook introduces the &#8220;Like&#8221; button in 2010 at its F8 developer conference. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declares that it will be &#8220;the most transformative thing we&#8217;ve ever done for the Web.&#8221;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;He says his goal is to encourage a Web where all products and services use people&#8217;s real identity. He suggests, in fact, that creating a personally identifiable web experience could be divine: &#8220;When you go to heaven, all of your friends are all there and everything is just the way you want it to be,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Together, lets build a world that is that good.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Angwin: For years people have noticed a funny thing about Facebook&#8217;s ubiquitous Like button. It has been sending data to Facebook tracking the sites you visit. Each time details of the tracking were revealed, Facebook promised that it wasn&#8217;t using the data for any commercial purposes.&nbsp;&nbsp;No longer. Last week, Facebook announced it will start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5955,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5954\/revisions\/5955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}