Facebook tracks people who have no account. Guilt is a … – Express

After a study that concludes that the Marck Zuckerberg giant track internet users, even those who do not have account on the social network, it became clear that the words “privacy” and “Facebook” do not match. The giant, however, has admitted the error, although he says that this only happens because of a bug (a software error) and that is not “intentional”.

The vice president of the social network, Richard Allan, admitted that was not the intention of the company to send cookies to people and ensured that were already “deal with this error.” A mistake can be costly to Facebook, a process completed by 25,000 people asking for compensation of 500 euros.

As for the trace that the study says that social networking is, the company denied: “Facebook gets rather information about visitors to the websites with the plugins or other integrations But the report’s authors, deceptively, called it.” tracking “Unlike other companies. we [Facebook] explain how we will use this information and controls that offer and honor. ”

Allan also said that social networking is “transparent” regarding the use of cookies for user safety, personalization and advertising. “Cookies tell us when people are on Facebook. And that’s why no one needs to write your name or password each time you visit the social network, for us to realize when they are trying to get in the accounts from another computer” he added.

Regarding the customization aspect, Facebook makes it clear that these cookies help the company to remember the language that each user speaking and in terms of advertising, cookies help be certain that the ads that each user sees are “interesting”.

25 thousand people against Facebook
This new discovery opened the controversy and in Vienna, 25,000 people have sued the social network for breach of privacy and European laws. The process is headed by Max Schrems, an Austrian 27 years.

This case has 25,000 people accusing the social network illegally tracking users, given that European laws specify that each person should be informed when a website uses cookies. Each of the injured seeks compensation of 500 euros.

“Basically, we are asking to Facebook to stop a massive surveillance, to have a privacy policy that all people realize and, above all, to stop gathering data about people or an account on the social network have “Shrems told the local press.

So far, Facebook did not comment on this process.