By By Walter McDaniel Jun 12, 2014 in Technology Facebook has recently started a program to read your browser history and preferences. This data will be sent to major companies so they can market products towards you. The good news is that you can opt out of this. Simply travel to this Since there are few rules on the sale of virtual data you can expect this trend to pick up. Information is and always has been big business. Now that we can share that information more easily than ever and often without realizing it we should all keep tabs on our personal browsing. The system will be implemented and improved over the course of the next few weeks. Facebook reports that they will be monitoring your at-home and mobile browsing through their new system. While we cannot be sure about the scope of the information gathered it is a safe bet that it will be significant.The good news is that you can opt out of this. Simply travel to this page here . Find the screen near the bottom-middle of the page and click on companies customizing ads for your browser. Click the button in the upper right corner and submit your choices. This will opt you out of multiple companies. If you want to opt out of everything do the same for the "All participating companies" tab there.Since there are few rules on the sale of virtual data you can expect this trend to pick up. Information is and always has been big business. Now that we can share that information more easily than ever and often without realizing it we should all keep tabs on our personal browsing. More about Facebook, Net neutrality, Internet, Technology Facebook Net neutrality Internet Technology