Madrid, December 9 (EFE) .- The Data Protection authorities of Belgium, Spain, France, Hamburg and the Netherlands have today urged Facebook to cease immediate collection of Internet navigation data no network users through cookies.
In a joint statement, published today by the Spanish Data Protection Agency, these five authorities require to comply Facebook with the judgment of the court of first instance in Brussels on November 9, ordering him to stop collecting data of Internet users who are not enrolled in the social network, but visiting their pages.
The court urged Facebook to stop “secret deal” these data for tracking and the use of “cookies” (programs that record surfing the Internet) without the consent of users.
In early 2015, and because of the changes introduced by Facebook in their conditions of use, various data protection authorities of the European Union among them the Spanish- began their investigation procedures, coordinating their actions through a Contact Group.
The group today urged Facebook “to comply with this judgment immediately and that the measures taken for this not detract from the Internet”.
Meanwhile, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, as all authorities group, continues his own research.
On April 10 the company run by Mark Zuckerberg admitted having tracked by mistake surfers outside the network due to a “bug” that caused the placement of “cookies” on websites
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