Facebook illegally tracks all visitors to its site
even if they do not have accounts, are logged off or have opted out says
new report
Facebook is tracking people’s internet searches across the web, even if they do not have an account with the social network.
The
technology company is using so-called internet ‘cookies’ – little
pieces of tracking data - to collect information about people’s activity
online, each time they visit a website which features a Facebook
button.
Facebook
buttons are on more than 13 million ordinary websites, including those
run by the government and the National Health Service, and allow users
to do things such as ‘like’ a website, or ‘share’ the link on their own
Facebook page.