A Belgian court has ruled that Facebook must stop tracking its citizens on third-party sites and delete all data it illegally acquired. Otherwise, the company will be fined 250,000 ($312,000) euros a day. An investigation by Belgium’s Privacy Commission had determined that Facebook was following users around the web with the help of cookies and social plug-ins.



Richard Allan, Facebook’s vice president of public policy for EMEA, said the company was disappointed with the verdict and intended to appeal: “The cookies and pixels we use are industry standard technologies and enable hundreds of thousands of businesses to grow their businesses and reach customers across the EU.

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