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French Gov't Gives Facebook 3 Months To Stop Tracking Non-User Browsers

Posted by timothy on from the non-non-non dept.

Reader iamthecheese writes RT reports that France's National Commission of Information and Freedoms found Facebook tracking of non-user browsers to be illegal. Facebook has three months to stop doing it. The ruling points to violations of members and non-members privacy in violation of an earlier ruling. The guidance, published last October, invalidates safe harbor provisions. If Facebook fails to comply the French authority will appoint someone to decide upon a sanction. Related: A copy of the TPP leaked last year no longer requires signing countries to have a safe harbor provision.

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  1. Just block the cookies.. by duke_cheetah2003 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I like this great tool from EFF. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Lets you selectively block cookies of all kinds of tracking that occurs during casual browsing.

  2. Re:Works for me by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 5, Informative

    I deleted my Facebook account several years ago.

    You cannot delete a facebook account. Everything is stored and stays so. They might have a "delete" function somewhere, but nothing is actually deleted. So you are still tracked and your data is still actively being used.

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