Facebook said Monday (9/11) will appeal against a court decision ordering the cessation of tracking the online activities of those who do not use Facebook in Belgium visiting the pages of Facebook, or face a daily fine of 250,000 euros (US $ 269,000).
Belgian data protection regulator dragged the US company to court in June, accusing it of violating EU privacy rules by tracking people who do not have a Facebook account without their consent.
At stake is what is called a 'cookie datr', which was placed in peramba-peramba people when they visit the website Facebook.com or click 'like' on Facebook via another page, make their online activities in peramba (browser ) that can be tracked.
"We have been using 'cookies datr' it for over five years to create a Facebook safe for 1.5 billion people around the world," according to a company spokesman.
"We will appeal against this decision and seek to minimize disruption to access Facebook in Belgium."
The court in Brussels ordered Facebook to stop tracking non-Facebook users in Belgium within 48 hours or pay a daily fine of 250,000 euros to the Belgian privacy regulator, according to Margot Neyskens, spokesman Bart Tommelein, Belgian Minister for Privacy Protection.
"Facebook can not keep people on the Internet are not a member of Facebook, something that is very logical because they do not have permission to follow them," said Tommelein in a statement sent to the email.
Facebook says 'cookie' is only identified peramba, not people, and help distinguish legitimate visitors or hackers.
The company also argued that because they have their headquarters in Europe, namely in Ireland, should they be regulated only by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
The argument was rejected by the Belgian privacy regulator.
Tommelein said the fact that the Brussels court has decided means it has jurisdiction over the company
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