#DeleteFacebook? Privacy proves hard to protect online


  • TECH
  • Monday, 26 Mar 2018

A 3D-printed Facebook logo are seen in front of displayed binary digits in this illustration taken, March 18, 2018. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

FRANKFURT: Anyone tempted to #DeleteFacebook after the personal data of millions of users fell into the hands of a political consultancy is still likely to be monitored by the social network, which tracks nearly 30% of global website traffic.

And Google, in various guises, shadows 64% of all web-browsing worldwide, a recent study of 200,000 German users by Cliqz, using its anti-tracking product Ghostery, said.

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