Online, The Cost of Convenience is Usually Privacy

As Digg users have noticed, in order to get its data, the add-on is sending the URL of every page you visit to Digg. I'll say that again: If you use this add-on, Digg is collecting your browsing history from this step forward. Whether or Digg actually saves the data or analyzes it is unknown, but this tool--which Digg didn't even build itself--does give the company a scary capacity to collect deep information about its users. It reminds us, of course, of Google, and the recently-released Web History feature that reveals to you what Google already knows: Every page you've visited after you installed the Google toolbar. In other words, the Smart Digg Button tool badly needs an "off" button.