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FACEBOOK COOKIE COLLECTION 'COULD BE DANGEROUS'

A cyberlaw expert says third parties and advertisers could abuse Facebook's practice - as claimed by a blogger - of tracking online activity even after users log out of the social network

An Australian technologist has caused a global stir after discovering Facebook tracks the websites its users visit even when they are logged out of the social networking site.

Separately, Facebook's new Timeline feature, launched last week, has been inadvertently accessed by users early, revealing a feature that allows people to see who removed them from their friends' lists.

Facebook's changes - which turn profiles into a chronological scrapbook of the user's life - are designed to let its 800 million members share what they are reading, listening to or watching in real time. But they have been met with alarm by some who fear over-sharing.

Facebook tracks you even after logging out