Facebook is trying to heal its image following the publication at the end of March, the report commissioned by the Protection of Privacy Commission, Belgian equivalent of the CNIL. This report was indeed very critical of the social network and its tracking practices passive users or unregistered, through the use of sharing buttons on numerous websites. A technique that would, according to the report against the European legislation on cookies, which requires the express consent of the user.
While Facebook against attack: in a message before yesterday, Richard Allan, European Director of Public Policy and Communications of Facebook, returns to the assertions of the report, which it considers erroneous. It specifies and the authors of the report have not contacted Facebook before final publication and gives a list of “non-exhaustive” errors and approximations identified by teams from Facebook in the report.
The most controversial point obviously the capacity tracker to Facebook users, even those who are not enrolled through plugins like button as widely disseminated on the web. According to the report, this plugin allow Facebook via the filing of a cookie to track any user, and to trace the social network of navigation data.
Faux according to Facebook, which ensures that he never set up such a system. But the social network concedes that the cases found by researchers within bugs “The researchers did find a bug that caused the sending of cookies some people do not have a Facebook account. It was not our intention and a patch is currently in preparation “promises Richard Allan. Duly noted.
In the rest of his answer, Richard Allan defends the social network and points out that the social network has many data privacy options allowing the user to adjust finely permissions and personal information the site can access and possibly reused for advertising purposes.
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