Facebook Privacy Breach: What Happened and What You Can Do

A few days removed from the headline-grabbing Facebook privacy breach that was, we take a deep breath to look at what happened and what steps you can take to protect your privacy online.

A few days removed from the headline-grabbing Facebook privacy breach that was, we take a deep breath to look at what happened and what steps you can take to protect your privacy online.

The mechanics behind the breach are surprisingly simple and used frequently across the Web to analyze traffic. A referrer URL comes to life whenever you click on an ad or a hyperlink. The referrer identifies the page you are going to from the page you’ve come from.

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