RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever 78
itwbennett writes "Privacy blogger Dan Tynan opted out of data aggregator RapLeaf back in 2010 — and wrote about it. At the time, opting out seemed to work well enough. But fast forward a couple of years and ... they're baaaack. While testing a privacy service called Safe Shepherd, Tynan discovered that 'not only [is he] not opted out of RapLeaf's database, they've also gathered far more information about [him] than they had before.' And it's a pretty good bet some of the data came from Facebook apps, which is a practice that the company was slapped for in 2010 and claimed to no longer do."
Re:Opt Out? (Score:5, Interesting)
And BTW, that page relies on no less than 10 external "trackers", according to Ghostery:
AppNexus
DoubleClick
Google +1
Google AdWords Conversion
Google Analytics
HubSpot
MixPanel
Outbrain
ScoreCard Research Beacon
SnapEngage
People are quite likely collecting data on your choice to opt out....