Facebook Following NSA Footsteps to Spy on Users: Belgium’s Privacy Advocate

In June this year, we reported how Facebook was sued by Belgium’s Privacy Commission (BPC) for tracking users even those who never made a profile on the social media site.

Now, Frederic Debussere (representative of the Belgian Privacy Commission/BPC) in his opening arguments on Monday, referred to Edward Snowden, the famous NSA whistleblower, while revealing the mass surveillance program of the NSA.

He 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.”