In the first months of 2016 a number of European countries have stated that Facebook is behaving irresponsible when it comes to users\u2019 privacy. Facebook disagrees.<\/p>\n
In the beginning of February the French data protection authority proclaimed that Mark Zukerberg\u2019s social network\u00a0must stop tracking non-users<\/a>. A similar decision\u00a0was made<\/a>\u00a0in 2015 in Belgium, and the Dutch, Spanish and German authorities are also launching their own investigation of this matter.<\/p>\n According to the aforementioned research held by a French privacy regulator, CNIL, Facebook has decided that every person that opened the social network\u2019s website has agreed with its terms of service by default, even if these people were not logged in. The social network placed a cookie in the browser of every visitor without informing them. Using that cookie it traced their online behaviour to collect information that could be useful for online advertisement.<\/p>\n Facebook must stop tracking non-users on the web: French regulator https:\/\/t.co\/iCPHl6Yki0<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Reuters Tech News (@ReutersTech) February 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n