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Web Beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of code placed on Web pages, videos, and in emails that can communicate information about your browser and device to a server. Beacons can be used, among other things, to count the users who visit a Web page or read an email, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a user viewing a Web page or email.
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Web beacons embedded in emails have greater privacy implications than beacons embedded in web pages. Through the use of an embedded beacon, the sender of an email – or even a third party – can record the same sort of information as an advertiser on a website, namely the time that the email was read, the IP address of the computer that was used to read the email (or the IP address of the ...
The beacon uses a bluetooth connection to communicate with the Facebook app on the user's smartphone, informing it of the phone's location. [1] The technology allows location-specific advertising to be pushed to the user's Facebook feed. [1] In June 2015, Facebook gave free beacons to a number of businesses in the United States. [2]
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Indoor positioning with beacons falls into three categories. Implementations with many beacons per room, implementations with one beacon per room, and implementations with a few beacons per building. Indoor navigation with Bluetooth is still in its infancy but attempts have been made to find a working solution.
Facebook Beacon worked through the use of a 1x1 GIF web bug on the third-party site and Facebook cookies. [14] Clearing Facebook cookies from the browser after explicitly logging off from Facebook prevented the third-party site from knowing a user's Facebook identity.