Facebook win the Global legal appeal to collect data on nonmembers in Belgium.
Facebook won an appeal in a Brussels court Wednesday in a case that pitted it against the Belgian Privacy Commission. An earlier ruling had ordered Facebook to stop using cookies, which are small bits of software that track website activity, to collect data on non-members. The win means Facebook can resume the practice. In the meantime, Facebook had blocked non registered members from the site's public pages. The Belgian privacy watchdog group, which originally brought the case in June 2015, said it will appeal that decision. That marks a victory for the U.S. company, which staunchly maintained that only the Irish Data Protection Commissioner has jurisdiction over how it uses Europeans' data. The court ruled in favour of the regulator and ordered Facebook to stop tracking non-Facebook users when they visited a Facebook page or face a 250,000 euros ($277,000) daily fine. Facebook appealed the ruling. In the meantime it said it would comply and stop using the s