This is in continuation of the posts on Facebook and Google and how your privacy can easily be compromised. It's very interesting to note that despite deleting my cookies or granting them only session rights, Google still manages to tie my account to the individual ip address.
As mentioned already, UID with your online account on Google/Facebook/Relationships and your organic whole can easily track you tied to your ip address. The mobile access is even more problematic because you rarely get any chance to ensure that the access is secure in the first place.
Pathetic.
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/02/nearly-3-years-later-deleted-facebook-photos-are-still-online.ars
Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content "did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a reasonable period of time even though they were immediately removed from the site," but said it's currently finishing up a newer system that makes the process much quicker. In the meantime, photos that users thought they "deleted" from the social network months or even years ago remain accessible via direct link.
The story link is clear; Facebook gets its money from tracking YOU. For example, it's IPO is squarely based on it's ability to raise the advertisers' bar for it's ecosystem. It's a giant advertising platform.
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