Facebook responds to tracking no-account users: from website plugin vulnerability

Recently, a survey by the Belgian privacy independent commissioner revealed that Facebook tracked the online footprints of a large number of website users, while hitting visitors who did not register for Facebook accounts. In response, the Facebook company responded to these nasty tracking behaviors in the presence of social media vulnerabilities on the installation of plugins.

Facebook directly refutes many investigators ' allegations of selective advertising, saying that users can opt out of advertising on their devices. At the same time, Facebook is not sure how their ads work and how they relate to European auditing practices.

The most serious accusation from researchers is that Facebook adds cookies to computers that are not Facebook users, and assigns them unique ad IDs and relevant habits to collect those users. The response to this Facebook is mainly due to the faulty plugin installed. The answer, it seems, shows that Facebook basically admits to tracking users ' warnings.

Claim: Facebook wants to use social plugins to add cookies to non-Facebook users ' browsers.

Fact: We have not done this, nor is it our intention. However, the researchers do find loopholes that may send cookies to people who are not Facebook users. This is not our intention and has been fixed for related issues.

We do not install cookies on the browser of a user who has never registered with the Facebook site.

I have identified a few instances: When the cookie is installed, we have begun to notice and resolve these neglected situations.

The remaining resolution statements include access to the application's buddy list, data sharing between different companies, and precise control of user location data. These issues have happened in the past, almost every place in the world.

In the control of a wide range of information, when your account has special personal information, Facebook provides you with privacy or the ability to share relevant private options, which are determined by the individual. And so in fact they are more or less in some time tracking the user without consent, is always disturbing. This is also likely to violate the traditional European strict privacy laws.

(Neowin Chinese webmaster)

Facebook responds to tracking no-account users: from website plugin vulnerability