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[zack1234]

Facebook has been told it cannot track people who are not on Facebook in Belgium

They are going to contest the decision, are these people deluded and think its acceptable to track anyone it choose's

In 20 years time your going to be arrested for not being on Facebook.

How many stools i have a day is my business and i refuse to put my daily bowel movements on facebook

You all jump about North Korea when this is happening

Feminism is to blame

[USRanger]

I would enjoy slamming Mark Zucherburg's head into his desk a few times.  God complex anyone?

[WaffenVW]

How hard can it be to turn off location services on your phone...

[Skuzzy]

How hard can it be to turn off location services on your phone...

Facebook (and other services) can turn on the location services long enough to get a location, whenever they want.  If you think you can stop that, you are fooling yourself.

[WaffenVW]

I run Cyanogen OS on my android. I can force the location service off, and limit any usage on a per-app basis. I hear android 6.0 can do the same stock.

[WaffenVW]

http://www.howtogeek.com/230683/how-to-manage-app-permissions-on-android-6.0/

[Dragon Tamer]

Facebook (and other services) can turn on the location services long enough to get a location, whenever they want.  If you think you can stop that, you are fooling yourself.

Wanna bet?

[Skuzzy]

What makes you think a piece of software you use to disable a feature cannot be re-activated by another piece of software you allow to be run on your phone?

[WaffenVW]

App permissions are OS regulated. An app must request access to a system service from the OS.

[PJ_Godzilla]

How many stools i have a day is my business and i refuse to put my daily bowel movements on facebook

You all jump about North Korea when this is happening

Feminism is to blame

Dear Zack, I like to make how many stools I have a day EVERYBODY'S business. In fact, I just put a nice pic of a big glistening brown growler up on Facebook for everyone's enjoyment. I'll send you a link so that you can enjoy it too. You'll note that it defied flushing, even though it was appropriately deposited in what I like to call a "proud flusher", aka, a Commercial Toilet.

Jeff Zuckerberg sends me personal notes commending me and says that's why he started facebook in the first place. All I know is that i'm completely expulsive and thus like the idea of holding the golden brown majesty up for all to behold in terror.

Check out this baby, Zuck! You'll never even be able to come close to this one's gurgling majesty! Behold and know fear!

[Skuzzy]

App permissions are OS regulated. An app must request access to a system service from the OS.

You are assuming the hardware has a protected mode feature set.  Software permissions are easily circumvented without hardware protected mode.  Does the smart phone have a CPU which supports hardware protected mode?  Does the OS support it?

For instance, Windows applications can talk to any hardware, directly.  They can access any memory space, including other applications memory space as well.  I was under the impression smart phones lacked hardware memory protection which requires the operating system to run in protected mode in order to take advantage of such hardware.

[WaffenVW]

Oh I'm sure it can be hacked and circumvented by malicious software one way or another, but not by Facebook Messenger or any other major app provider who would suffer dire consequences if and when someone inevitably found them out.

[SPKmes]

If you are connected in anyway shape or form and they want they can....

We know what they want us to know 

[Zimme83]

Not having the facebook app on the phone is a start. Also having internet turned off while not using it...

[Vulcan]

Did any of you numpties bother to google the article?

Facebook tracks the web browsing of everyone who visits a page on its site even if the user does not have an account or has explicitly opted out of tracking in the EU, extensive research commissioned by the Belgian data protection agency has revealed.

They are talking about using cookies in your browser to track what websites you visit. Not GPS tracking.

It is not just facebook tracking you, but many other sites as well. In typical day of browsing I usually block 200-400 trackers (blocked at my firewall). This is not cookies but attempts to hit their sites, and excludes SSL traffic (I don't currently decrypt) so may only account for around 70-80% of trackers.