@byoogle raises Funding To Stop Google, Facebook & More From Tracking Your Data

Source … TechCrunch: Disconnect: Ex-Googlers Raise Funding To Stop Google, Facebook & More From Tracking Your Data

Google engineer Brian Kennish in October 2010, created Facebook Disconnect which I downloaded not long after, a Chrome extension that disables all traffic from third-party sites to Facebook servers but still allows you to access Facebook itself. The extension racked up 50K active users in two weeks prompting Kennish to leave his job at Google to focus full-time on helping the average web user take back control of their data.

https://disconnect.me/ is now attracting over 400K weekly active users with a "Mission Statement": “Personal data should belong to people, not corporations.”  And taken on $600,000 from Highland Capital Partners with the participation of Charles River Ventures and angel investors; David Cancel, Mark Jacobstein, Ramesh Haridas, Vikas Taneja, Chris Hobbs, and Andy Toebben.