Users in Belgium Will Have to Log In to See Facebook Pages
Privacy mavens will probably be happy with Facebook’s concessions in Belgium, but page owners? Not so much.
Privacy mavens will probably be happy with Facebook’s concessions in Belgium, but page owners? Not so much.
BBC News reported that Facebook agreed to require users to log in prior to viewing pages, rather than enabling the use of cookies, particularly the datr cookie.
Facebook has claimed that the datr cookie helps prevent the creation of fake accounts, hijacking of accounts, theft of content and denial-of-service attacks, and a spokeswoman for the social network told BBC News:
We had hoped to address the Belgian Privacy Commissioner’s concerns in a way that allowed us to continue using a security cookie that protected Belgian people from more than 33,000 takeover attempts in the past month.
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