Facebook sued over claims it tracks users' activity

FACEBOOK is being sued by a bunch of users over claims it tracks their on-line activity after they close.

The claims were exposed by an Australian technology blogger, Nik Cubrilovic, who conducted tests that exposed that when users log off, the positioning does not delete tracking ''cookies'' but modifies them, keeping information which can establish users as they surf cyberspace.

The company has told users cookie files place in on their computers to trace interactions with Facebook applications and websites are removed once they close, in step with a criticism inside the US federal court in San Jose, California. Facebook admitted last week that the cookies track web activity when users close, in step with the suit.



''This admission came solely when an Australian technology blogger exposed Facebook's apply of monitoring members who have logged out, though he brought the problems to the defendant's attention a year ago,'' the criticism states.

On Friday, 10 public interest groups asked the US Federal Trade Commission to research Facebook's tracking of web users after they close. They urged the commission to appear at whether or not or not Facebook's new ticker and timeline choices increased privacy risks for users by combining biographical information in an merely accessible format.

The lawsuit - filed by Perrin Aikens Davis, of Illinois - seeks class standing on behalf of various Facebook users inside the US. Davis seeks unspecified damages and a court order blocking the tracking based totally on violations of federal laws, along with restrictions on wiretapping, additionally as laptop fraud and abuse statutes.

''We believe this criticism is whereas not advantage which we will fight it vigorously,'' Andrew Noyes, a Facebook spokesman, said in an exceedingly statement.