Facebook Claims ‘A Bug’ Made it Track Nonusers

April 11th, 2015

Mmm hmm.

Via: The Hill:

Facebook researchers have found “a bug” that caused it to track people, even if they had never visited its website, the social media giant acknowledged this week.

The bug caused the company to place cookies — a common way to track people’s browsing habits on the Web — on “some” people’s browsers, even if they had never visited Facebook.com to sign up for an account, the social media website’s European Public Policy Vice President Richard Allan wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

However, the tracking was “inadvertent,” and Facebook has begun to work on ironing out its code, Allan claimed.

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One Response to “Facebook Claims ‘A Bug’ Made it Track Nonusers”

  1. soothing hex says:
    April 27, 2015 at 1:14 pm

    Remember the ‘dark profiles’ ? https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=30700

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