Belgium's Privacy Protection Commission says that Facebook tramples on European privacy laws by tracking people online without their consent and dodges questions from national regulators.
They have issued a set of recommendations for both Facebook, website owners and end users.
Net-Security reports: "The recommendations are based on the results of an extensive analysis
of Facebook's revised policies and terms (rolled out on January 30,
2015) conducted by the inter-university research center EMSOC/SPION,
which concluded that the company is acting in violation of European law. According to them Facebook places too much burden on its users to protect their privacy, and then doesn't offer simple tools and settings to do so, and sets up some problematic default settings.
They also don't provide adequate information for users to make informed choices."
Facebook loves your content for free!
Modern technology has given those in power new abilities to eavesdrop and collect data on innocent people. Surveillance self-defense is defending yourself and your friends from surveillance by using secure technology and developing careful practices.
Class 1 defense tools:
Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could function well without any settings, knowledge or configuration by the user; which is produced by an organization that is unambiguously working for its users rather than for advertisers; and which uses algorithmic methods to decide what is and isn't tracking.
Privacy Badger
disconnectme
HTTPS Everywhere
AnonymoX
Class 2 defense tools (might be too much security for most people):
Edward Snowden endorses NoScript as a countermeasure against state Surveillance State.
No Script
Even better:
uMatrix
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