Information security

Belgian Privacy Commission accuses Facebook of using NSA tactics to spy on users

A European privacy watchdog has compared social networking firm Facebook to the US National Security Agency (NSA) for spying on users. 

The accusation was aired during the first day of the Belgian Privacy Commission’s (BPC) case against Facebook, which the commission accuses of ignoring European privacy laws.BPC legal representative Frederic Debussere is reported by The Guardian to have said: “When it became known that the NSA was spying on people all around the world, everybody was upset. This actor [Facebook] is doing the very same thing, albeit in a different way.”

For example, the BPC previously accused Facebook of monitoring the web browsing activities of its users without their consent, regardless of whether or not they are logged into it.