Facebook admits tracking non-users
It has emerged that Facebook has been secretly installing tracking cookies on users' computers, even when users have opted to delete their accounts.
It has emerged that Facebook has been secretly installing tracking cookies on users' computers, even when users have opted to delete their accounts.
It has emerged that Facebook has been secretly installing tracking cookies on users’ computers, even when users have opted to delete their accounts.
A report by Belgian academics claimed that Facebook continued tracking people when they opted out of ads, but Facebook responded in a blog post, saying that said it only kept information like “web impressions” — the fact that certain pages have been visited — and the authors of the report had misleadingly called that “tracking”.
Facebook said that cookies may have been placed in “a few instances”, but that the team is addressing those “inadvertent instances”. Facebook rejected outright the rest of the claims made in the report.
The social network hit back saying that the report “gets it wrong multiple times in asserting how Facebook uses information”. The researchers did find a bug that may have sent cookies to some people when they weren’t on Facebook. This was not our intention – a fix for this is already under way,” wrote Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of policy for Europe in a rebuttal.
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People who live in glass houses have nothing worth hiding.
People forget that you’re not a person to a digital tracking system, you’re just a figure that no one cares about. Unfortuently you’re not that important for facebook to single out…so I wouldn’t worry whose tracking you.