Facebook Disconnect to protect your online privacy - Stop Facebook from tracking the webpages you go to

Facebook is notified whenever you visit one of the more than one million sites on the web that use Facebook Connect and has a history of leaking personally identifiable information to third parties.

Thousands of third party websites and applications currently use Facebook Connect, promptly raising privacy concerns over how personal data is being handled, and what data is accessible to third parties, among other concerns.

In the past few weeks, Facebook applications like FarmVille reportedly shared confidential personal information about users obtained through Facebook Connect with numerous different partners such as advertising networks.

To help ensure online privacy, Brian Kennish (@byoogle), an engineer at Google, developed Facebook Disconnect, an extension for the Google Chrome browser, which effectively blocks the transmission of data back to Facebook servers through Facebook Connect on third party websites, while still allowing a user to access the sites.

The developer says the project was created on his own time, and it is not endorsed or related with his employer, Google, in any way, express, or implied.

The developer is expected to release the application for other popular browsers, including Mozilla Firefox, among others.

To install the extension visit https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambagiibghpglaidiec