Facebook Inc Wants Permission To Track Users All Over the Internet

Mark Melin

Published onSeptember 24, 2014

Updated on May 13, 2021

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) wants permission to track their user’s web site behavior, even when they are no longer on Facebook but surfing other web sites.

Facebook's new privacy terms include tracking user's movements

The Wall Street Journal notes that the lengthy privacy terms the social network requires users to agree to now says they can track a user’s movements even when they are no longer on Facebook.

The goal is to generate more relevant and thus more profitable advertising. Ideally Facebook wants to know what web sites...

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

Facebook Inc Wants Permission To Track Users All Over the Internet

Facebook's new privacy terms include tracking user's movements

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