Facebook PR Admits That It 'Tracks' Non-Users

I always feel like somebody's watching me...

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Facebook’s international PR department is currently clashing with international researchers who discovered some unflattering information about the social network: it tracks personal data even when the individuals in question do not have Facebook accounts.

Whoops.

In a statement release two days ago, the Facebook team admitted that the researchers got some things right and that non-users have received “cookies” from the service, but claimed that this tracking of non-users was attributable to a “bug” and that they’re totally working on it.

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