Facebook “Dogs” Internet illegally – Morning Post

Social Network states that research has factual inaccuracies.

 By JS

Facebook follows the activity online of users, even those who do not have an account in social network or not to have turned on. When a user visits public profiles in the field facebook.com, are placed cookies on your device, even if you are not using your account that social network.

After that, whenever the Internet user visit a page with buttons linked to social network – directly to ‘Like’ or share the news on the wall – the cookies collect the activity information online without the consent of the users . These buttons are currently more than 13 million sites .

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was revealed in a report of the University of Leuven that in Belgium, which states that Mark Zuckerberg is violating the privacy laws of the European Union, according to which the sites have to seek the consent to use cookies on the first visit. With this method, Facebook can choose the appropriate advertising every Internet user.

The report also talks about the fact that some users opt out of receiving targeted advertising. “If people are not being accompanied by Facebook using the mechanism of not monitoring proposed for the European Union, Facebook puts them a cookie long term, which can be used to track them during the next two years, “he told The Guardian Güneş Acar, one of the report’s co-authors.

Facebook responded saying “inaccurate information”. A spokesman for the social network also said that were not contacted by the researchers before publication, but who are willing to collaborate so that the work is rectified.

What are Cookies
cookies are pieces of information about a user collected by a site. Using this method, Facebook realizes what kind of content Internet users prefer and at what times is more active. Thus, you can proceed with advertising according to the tastes and routines of users.

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