> What bothers me more is that there's a lack of consideration that there are legitimate reasons a certain level of data is collected in order to make the web more social.
It isn't for making the web more social. It's for making (e.g.) Facebook more all-knowing, which is a task on the way for more profit.
Just like the tobacco industry should be regulated against making cigarettes more addictive, privacy should be regulated -- either by attaching a mouse-over saying "warning: facebook tracks you on every page you visit that has a like button", or by limiting what and how they can collect.
The copyright issue is a red herring. Facebook could create an official "data:..." url like button that has the original image instead of linking to their server. It would be better for everyone involved, including facebook's bandwidth and the site's loading speed -- except that facebook would lose their tracking data.
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> What bothers me more is that there's a lack of consideration that there are legitimate reasons a certain level of data is collected in order to make the web more social.
It isn't for making the web more social. It's for making (e.g.) Facebook more all-knowing, which is a task on the way for more profit.
Just like the tobacco industry should be regulated against making cigarettes more addictive, privacy should be regulated -- either by attaching a mouse-over saying "warning: facebook tracks you on every page you visit that has a like button", or by limiting what and how they can collect.
The copyright issue is a red herring. Facebook could create an official "data:..." url like button that has the original image instead of linking to their server. It would be better for everyone involved, including facebook's bandwidth and the site's loading speed -- except that facebook would lose their tracking data.