Facebook keeps track of all users that it can reach

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    Facebook is following you. Of course, if you yourself upload your personal information to the social network, this is not surprising. In the practice of this network there was even a function of automatic face recognition in photographs. And recently, their programmers taught the system to understand simple texts and recognize what is happening on the video.

    But according to a study by security experts from Belgium , Facebook keeps track of you even if you don’t have an account on this social network, or if you have refused to see ads analyzing your behavior. The report was commissioned by the Belgian privacy commission.

    Research has identified several potential spy cookies on your computer. The first is when you visit any page on the social network. The second is visiting some websites (including mtv.com and myspace.com). Thirdly, the European Digital Advertising Alliance website, where those users who don’t want to be tracked come to.

    Then, long-lived cookies that appear are read and processed by widgets that people put on their sites to collect “likes”.

    From the point of view of Facebook representatives, the report contains many inaccuracies. They expressed their readiness to meet with the commission on privacy, which ordered the report, and to tell in detail about everything, but were refused. Representatives of the social network claim that they do not violate any laws and that setting up such cookies to track users is an acceptable and legal practice.

    European laws protecting the privacy of Internet users oblige sites to obtain the consent of users to put cookies on their computer, with the exception of specific cases such as online stores, which would otherwise simply not work the shopping cart mechanism. Facebook does not ask users for permission - the only warning about possible tracking is in their rules of work.

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