9/24/09, Ars Technica
It’s no secret that most websites share some amount of usage data with their advertising partners, but that data is usually anonymized. Not so in the case of most social networks, though, according to a recent study. An ad partner could easily grab your unique profile identifier and find out nearly everything about you.
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