to niceville florida and of course whenever you say niceville florida it can only mean one man karl denninger welcome back to the kaiser report thank you max all righty so carl denham you were in the internet business for a long time what's going on with facebook. oh something i've been raising a stink about sense started publication of the techer in zero seven you know when facebook was just agreement people's i. but nobody cared and that is that it is trivially easy to abuse ordinary internet traffic for personal tracking it everybody's making a stink about what facebook's doing with the data that they get from you being on facebook but that's not the real scandal the real scandal is that every time you go to a website anywhere on the web that has a like button or a facebook sign on but doesn't matter whether you signed it or not doesn't matter whether you can sign or not you can't consent because you can't know it's there until after you read it that data is being sent back to facebook and additionally it's trivially easy for them to abuse it rather common function within the protocol call