Facebook follows people on the Internet even if they don't have an account in the famous American social network, President Mark Zuckerberg confirming this during his testimony before the US Congress. Everyone was amazed to see that Facebook monitors its users outside of its own website, but the revelation that even non-users are tracked is all the more worrying for the whole world.
Facebook has confirmed that it also tracks people who are not part of its platform, and American legislators have stated that they want them to have the opportunity to see what kind of information the American company collects about them. Of course, the president of Facebook stated that he never had any plans to create any program that would allow viewing the data collected about non-users, and this somewhat upset some members of the US Congress.
Facebook follows you on the Internet even if you do not have an Account on the network
Facebook claims that in a first phase it receives information about non-users when one of its users uploads information about the phone numbers or email addresses of the friends he has on his phone. Apart from that, Facebook collects information about people through the Like and Share buttons on various websites, which are also used to track them on the Internet and their own users.
"Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the world's largest social network tracks people whether they have accounts or not. It's not clear what Facebook is doing with that information. Facebook gets some data on non-users from people on its network, such as when a user uploads email addresses of friends. Other information comes from "cookies," small files stored via a browser and used by Facebook and others to track people on the internet, sometimes to target them with ads."
Facebook says that this is a standard practice on the Internet and that many services use cookies to track people anywhere on the Internet, stating that their storage on computers can be stopped by people. The problem is that blocking cookies damages many websites, or online services, which are based on a functionality of this kind, so everything Facebook does will not disappear too soon because other companies work the same way, and Facebook is not different from them in any way.
