Belgium’s privacy watchdog said. Belgium’s Privacy Protection Commission , which is working with German, Dutch, French and Spanish counterparts, claim Facebook tramples on European privacy laws by tracking people online without their consent and dodges questions from national regulators.
The regulator told internet users to install privacy software to shield themselves from Facebook’s tracking systems.
“Facebook tramples on European and Belgian privacy laws”, the Commission said in a statement on Friday after analysing changes the company made to its privacy policies in January.
It said Facebook had refused to recognise Belgian and other European Union national jurisdictions, with the company insisting it was subject only to the law in Ireland, the site of its European headquarters.
“Facebook has shown itself particularly miserly in giving precise answers,” the watchdog said, adding that the results of the study by a group of researchers were “disconcerting”.
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