Facebook cookies could be tracking users even after they've cancelled their accounts

Bloomberg is reporting that Facebook is apparently tracking users' web activity even after they've cancelled their accounts. The Hamburg Data Protection agency, the European source of the reports, says that its probe uncovered that certain cookies installed after an account is opened remain even if the account is later closed, and that Facebook has justified this action in order to "guarantee" its security.
The Hamburg Data Protection agency, which functions as a privacy watchdog group within Germany, is unsurprisingly unimpressed with this excuse, and is asking Facebook to engage in a conversation about the behavior, which they say is essentially creating backend user-tracking profiles, whi... »read more

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