Facebook tracks everyone who visits its site, including people who don’t have an account, and continues to track users and non-users who have opted out of targeted ads, researchers at two Belgian universities have found.

Researchers at the University of Leuven in cooperation with researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel have published an update to a February analysis of Facebook’s new policies and terms. The report, commissioned by the Belgian Privacy Commission, already found in preliminary conclusions in February that Facebook, with its 2015 privacy policy update, likely acts in violation of European law.

ter these initial findings, the researchers did a further technical analysis on Facebook’s tracking practices. They focused on tracking techniques that use social plug-ins such as the “Like Button,” which is used on more than 13 million third-party websites, and also tested the advertising tracking opt-out.

“In doing so, a number of remarkable new issues have come to light,” said Brendan Van Alsenoy, legal researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Law and ICT of the University of Leuven.

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