It was after the publication of a report by the equivalent of the CNIL in Belgium that the information was published. The report says among other things, that the website Facebook conduct a tracking unregistered users , which would of course illegal. Initially, the leaders of the most popular community site in the world said that the information was incorrect, but they quickly retracted their about to say that the cookies from the site could spy on Internet users not being a member of Facebook following a bug.
Facebook denies spying on Internet users and fixes a bug
This method of tracking passive users goes against European legislation and the report commissioned by the Privacy Protection Commission is particularly critical of the Facebook platform, it can track virtually accuses everyone, through the sharing button.
Richard Allan, European Director of Public Policy and Communications of Facebook, returned to the charge following the publication of this report by making sure to discredit the content within each of the errors, which, according to him, distort the content that report. In his words, Facebook has not been contacted before the final publication of this report and this partly explains the approximations in it.
Following a similar argument with the giant Google, 2015 promises golds already as a year of scandals related to internet privacy and consumer protection associations calling for a boycott of Facebook popping almost everywhere on the web and elsewhere.
Although Facebook claims that this tracking history is due to a bug, it remains important for the experts to see that Facebook has the technology to do so voluntarily if he wished.
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