Facebook illegally tracks all visitors to its site, says new report

Facebook is 'illegally' 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.

Academics in Belgium claim that Mark Zuckerberg's social network is breaching EU privacy laws by placing the tracking cookies on computers without the user's consent to log their browsing data.

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