Belgian Police Say Facebook Reactions Could Be Dangerous

Belgium’s federal police issued a public warning on Wednesday afternoon: Facebook’s reactions—the emoticons of laughter, amazement, anger, sadness and love that have joined the old “thumbs-up”—are actually there to erode your privacy. Facebook has already had difficulties in Belgium, with privacy authorities there having forced it to stop tracking non-users with its browser cookies. But this is a new one. Explaining that Facebook’s users are the product, the Belgian police wrote that the new reaction symbols help the social network to evaluate the effectiveness of its advertising. Read more, Time Magazine...