Facebook sparks new privacy row as social network giant admits it continues to track users after they log out

Facebook has admitted that it continues to track users after they log out, sparking yet another privacy row.

The social networking website said that it monitors every single web page its 750million users go to even after they have signed out.

Under these circumstances most would assume that Facebook stops working but technology bloggers have discovered that this is not the case.
Monitoring all: Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg

Monitoring all: Facebook founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg

In fact data is regularly sent back to Facebook’s servers which gives it yet more information on what its users are doing.

Such information is incredibly valuable and helps Facebook make billions of pounds each year from advertising.

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