Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites Threatened With Fine

Re:Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites... by jonalexr on Friday August 19, 2011 @03:38PM (#2904581)

I was thinking about this a couple of days ago - with Like buttons appearing all over the internet, Facebook has the ability to log what sites you visit, when you visit them, etc. Question is, do they? To what extent?

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Re:Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites... by Tichy on Friday August 19, 2011 @04:01PM (#2904681)

Of course they do. To the maximum extent they can manage. As the saying goes: if you are using a web service for free, you are not their customer, you are their product (or something like that).

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Re:Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites... by icebraining on Friday August 19, 2011 @07:04PM (#2905227)

Paying is irrelevant. How many websites hide the FB buttons if you subscribe to them?

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Re:Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites... by Tichy on Saturday August 20, 2011 @06:43AM (#2906349)

I meant you don't pay for Facebook. Facebook is collecting the data, not the sites who add the Like button.

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Re:Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites... by finiteloop on Friday August 19, 2011 @05:18PM (#2904945)

The purpose of the Like button is to enable you to share stuff back to Facebook when you click on it. We anonymize all logging data collected as a byproduct of serving the Like button and other social plugins within 90 days of their collection. See https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=186325668085084.

Bret Taylor CTO, Facebook

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Re:Germany vs. Facebook: Like Button Declared Illegal, Sites... by sneak on Friday August 19, 2011 @05:53PM (#2905042)

What happens within that 90 days? Why not anonymize it within 90 seconds?

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