LONDON: A group of users have sued Facebook after it emerged that the social networking giant tracks its users’ online activities after they are logged out.
Australian technologist Nik Cubrilovic recently claimed that when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.
Facebook then admitted its cookies could have been used to track people, adding that the company has now fixed the problem.
But 10 public interest groups have asked the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook’s tracking of internet users, Australian media reported.
