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Which Websites Are Sharing Your Personal Details?
To identify what personal information gets passed to other companies when you log in to popular websites, The Wall Street Journal tested 50 of the top sites (by U.S. traffic) that offer registration, excluding sites that required a real-world account, such as banking sites. The Journal also tested 20 selected other sites that focus on sensitive subjects such as dating, politics, health, or children’s issues, and our own site, WSJ.com. Click here to read more about the methodology. Results for each site are below. Sites are ranked by popularity, based on comScore's numbers. Sites not in comScore's top 1,000 are marked with a "*". Click on the rows for more details.
TYPES OF DATA SENT
Identifiable Data
Other Personal Data
Sent in Full
Partial/Encoded
Sites Passing Data
All Sites
| Traffic Rank | Site | Name | Username | Age / Birth Year | ZIP Code | Other Data | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Yahoo.com | ||||||
| 4 | YouTube.com | ||||||
| 10 | Ask.com | ||||||
| 14 | About.com | ||||||
| 20 | Wordpress.com | ||||||
| 21 | CNN.com | ||||||
| 27 | LinkedIn.com | ||||||
| 33 | ESPN.com | ||||||
| 40 | NYTimes.com | ||||||
| 50 | Pinterest.com | ||||||
| 51 | Pandora.com | ||||||
| 55 | Whitepages.com | ||||||
| 58 | Expedia.com | ||||||
| 61 | Photobucket.com | ||||||
| 74 | WebMD.com | ||||||
| 100 | WSJ.com | ||||||
| 143 | EverydayHealth.com | ||||||
| 212 | Miniclip.com | ||||||
| 238 | ClubPenguin.com | ||||||
| 288 | Roblox.com | ||||||
| 396 | Match.com | ||||||
| 495 | BarackObama.com | ||||||
| * | DailyKos.com | ||||||
| * | OKCupid.com | ||||||
| * | MittRomney.com |
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Yahoo.com
Age / Birth Year sent to:
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Company CommentsYahoo did not respond to the Journal's questions about data it was sending, but it has pointed out in the past that demographic information such as age and ZIP code are not personally identifiable.
Recipient CommentsMarkit On Demand says it receives demographic data to optimize ads on Yahoo sites. "This information is not used or shared with any other party for their own use," the company says.
Other notesTests detected transmission only of non-identifiable demographic data.
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