Woman says Facebook cookies violate wiretap laws, files suit

Who cares. Plain and Simple. If you use facebook why are you worried about them tracking your browsing history? They already know where you live, what your interests are, and probably what you had for breakfast this morning, so why does it even matter if they know what sites you've been to. They could likely guess based on the info you've given them anyway.

You're right Win7Dev, but there needs to be a limit to it. Otherwise before you know it there will be a keylogger on your computer sending everything you type on it back to some company somewhere. I make it a point to log off FB when I'm done with it, they should not gather information of me when I'm "done" with them. Guessing is not the same thing as knowing.

Obviously if someone is violating peoples privacy they should be held responsible, but I would think its impossible for them to track your activity if you don't go to their site to begin with : )

Kinda like, its impossible for apple to "track your iphone" if you never buy one in the first place

But uh-oh, wait a second...no smartphone, no facebook..sounds like loser to me...and if theres one thing the wise have taught me, its that being cool and having a lot of friends is all that matters in this life, right? : )

Yes, that's right.

Actually the like button is on the top and being tracked on the internet is significant ( if FB can do it why not anybobdy else? )

What's that? Pino does not have a Facebook account? How awesome is that kid!?

And my life is better because of it…

Silly Rabbits...

Google Chrome Extension:
Facebook Disconnect - Version: 1.2.0
Stop Facebook from tracking the webpages you go to.

Herr Hitler promised the German people a free Volkswagen for every family and a government paid vacation once a year (If you toted the party line)...,but look how it ended. We need to keep our money (meaning dont buy EVERY gadget supporting the high price) and information to ourselves and learn to become more independent like our founding fathers were.

I have the google chrome extension that replaces the like button with an image. Click it once to bring up the actual like button.

Another reason to be running NoScript via http://noscript.net/ and Ghostery via http://www.ghostery.com/.

No facebook crap for me. Good lucky getting a cookie on my network! Blocked via router at DNS level too.

You can add filters to AdBlock to block the cookies. Here's the list with the filters:

facebook.com^$domain=~facebook.com ~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
facebook.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
fbcdn.com^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net
fbcdn.net^$domain=~facebook.com|~facebook.net|~fbcdn.com|~fbcdn.net

Unless you use a proxy and fill them up with wildly false information and use NoScript + BetterPrivacy add-ons for Firefox. It's the facebook.net domain that is required for the "like" buttons and whatnot on external sites. That domain isn't actually required to use facebook.com though. So I think keeping facebook.net blocked on NoScript may help the issue to a degree.

Indeed, NoScript for the win! Or NotScripts in my case (Chrome).

I've been noticing that where ever I go on the internet, You almost have to have a Facebook account or you won't get anywhere !

It's almost like being forced to have an Facebook account or your left behind !

modern browsers are embedded with database,
and always crashing ... don't really care if data
is transmitted to the moon !

Implying Google Chrome isn't a bot-net.

Wish I was paranoid enough to wear a tinfoil hat like others.

The main reason I opened this article was coz the first words were "Woman says"

Couldn't you have used "researcher" instead?