article_snippet: Academics in Belgium claim that the social network is breaching EU privacy laws by placing the tracking cookies on computers without the user's consent to log the tracking cookies browsing data.
article_snippet: Academics in Belgium claim that Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg (pictured last week) 
article_snippet: Privacy campaigners have today accused Facebook of taking ‘staggering’ liberties by behaving in this way, and suggested that people can only really protecting people if people stop using the internet.
article_snippet: Privacy campaigners said today that Facebook seemed to have forgotten that people are private citizens, rather than money-making machines.
article_snippet: Shima was saying, which is that if you don’t want to be spied on, you should opt out of Facebook.
article_snippet: Shima Shima said last week that people should close people Facebook accounts if people want to ensure that US security services are not spying on US security services information.
article_snippet: Facebook was last month accused of acting in violation of EU privacy laws by the same academics who claimed Facebook
article_snippet: Facebook claimed the social media site 'placed too much burden' on users, rather than protecting Facebook.
article_snippet: The move has been condemned by privacy campaigners .
article_snippet: In January an Austrian court said an Austrian court will consider a class action against Facebook by 25,000 people who are claiming Facebook privacy has been breached.
article_snippet: Mr Schrems began Mr Schrems legal challenge last June, claiming that Facebook supplied personal information to the US Prism spy programme.
article_snippet: the US Prism spy programme is the U.S. secret service's worldwide monitoring and data mining system and was exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden last year.
highlights_snippet: Academics say that social network is breaching EU privacy laws .
  