Facebook: admits to even watching non-users

It is known that the απειλείται από ευρωπαϊκές καταγγελίες για τον ρόλο του στις παρακολουθήσεις των ΗΠΑ. Το μεγαλύτερο κοινωνικό δίκτυο αυτή τη βδομάδα δέχτηκε άλλο ένα χτύπημα όταν μια Βελγική έκθεση για την of privacy reported that it violates European laws.

Μετά από αυτό, η εταιρεία για πρώτη φορά παραδέχτηκε δημόσια ότι είχε συλλέξει δεδομένα από τους χρήστες που δεν ήταν εγγεγραμμένοι στο Facebook μέσω των ιστοσελίδων που έχουν ενσωματωμένο το κουμπί (και ποια δεν το έχει). Όμως το άπληστο κοινωνικό δίκτυο αναφέρει ότι η συλλογή αυτών των δεδομένων, προέκυψε λόγω σφάλματος ().facebook spy

This week, the company responded to the final report produced by the Belgian Commission for Personal Data Protection, which examined an update Facebook last year's data usage policy.

The report from Belgium claims that the methods ς του Facebοok παραβιάζουν τους όρους των συμβάσεων του ευρωπαϊκού δίκαιου, Η έκθεση αναφέρει επίσης, ότι δεν υπάρχει ένας μηχανισμός opt-out που σταματάει τη συμπεριφορική διαφήμιση και που επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να δίνουν την νομικά έγκυρη συναίνεση τους.

Facebok initially replied by saying that the report contained "inaccuracies" and that the researchers never came in contact with them to discuss these claims.

"The report repeatedly falsely claims that Facebook uses information from our services to more than one billion people worldwide," said Richard Allan, Facebook's vice president for Europe policy. week.

One of the most controversial claims in the report is that Facebok uses the Like button embedded on third-party sites to track everyone on the Internet, even those who are not registered on the social network. According to the report, this is done with a special cookie called "datr" and served to non-users.

According to Facebook, what the researchers discovered was actually a bug.

"Our practice is not to place cookies in programs of people who have visited websites with Social Plugins, but who have never visited Facebook.com”, said Allan.

"Researchers have identified a few cases where cookies were served, but we were beginning to experience these inadvertent cases as soon as they came to our notice."

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