Samuel Gibbs, reporting for The Guardian:
Facebook tracks the web browsing of everyone who visits a page on its site even if the user does not have an account or has explicitly opted out of tracking in the EU, extensive research commissioned by the Belgian data protection agency has revealed.
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When a user visits a third-party site that carries one of Facebook’s social plug-ins, it detects and sends the tracking cookies back to Facebook — even if the user does not interact with the Like button, Facebook Login or other extension of the social media site.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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