Twitter Implements Do Not Track Privacy Option

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By NICK BILTON

It’s no secret that Facebook is worth about $100 billion because it collected personal data about its users. A lot of data.

Although Twitter tracks its users too — albeit in a much less aggressive way — the company has decided to take a different route. It announced Thursday that it is joining Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox Web browser, and giving its users the ability to opt-out of being tracked in any way through Twitter.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...rivacy-option/

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Like Facebook, Twitter wants to know which websites you visit and so it has a system for tracking you as you click from site to site, a fact that leads to a pair of interesting questions: "Did you know that?" and "Are you okay with that?" As we will see in a moment, this system has been in place for some time and it is not the same as third-party, cross-site ad-tracking systems that you may have read about. There will be more about those and the "Do Not Track" feature in some web browsers after we show you how to turn off this particular form of Twitter tracking, currently referred to by Twitter as "Personalization.

http://blog.eset.com/2012/05/21/how-...ites-you-visit