A court order to Facebook "Stop collecting personal information other than registered users within 48 hours"

ByAndreas Ivarsson

When you visit the Facebook website, cookies are distributed to visitors who do not have a Facebook account. In response to this mechanism, the Belgian court ordered Facebook to "stop tracking people who are not users within 48 hours". If you fail to comply with the court order, Facebook is faced with a fine of 250 thousand euros (about 33 million yen) per day.

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Facebook collects information using cookies for all visitors, this is done in the same way when a person without a Facebook account accesses Facebook. The Belgian court dismissed the information collection and canceled it as "Facebook had to obtain agreement on gathering information" but Facebook ordered a fine, but Facebook says, "Facebook can use personal information if user's consent is obtained It will be appealed as "not hit".

"Cookie"You can record visitor identification, visit date and time by leaving temporary data on visitor side, and it will be deleted after a certain period of time. Facebook is using "Datr cookieAccording to Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer, Datr cookie says, "Prevent creation of fake accounts and spam accounts" "Protect users against account hijacking" "Block Facebook attackers Preventing DDoS attacks "and enable actions such as. "We are using Datr cookies to protect 1.5 billion Facebook users and have secured Facebook for five years," Stamos says.

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