Facebook to appeal Belgian ruling ordering it to stop tracking non-users

Facebook said on Monday it would appeal a court ruling ordering it to stop tracking the online activities of non-Facebook users in Belgium who visit Facebook pages, or face a 250,000 euro ($269,000) daily fine.
Belgium’s data protection regulator took the U.S. company to court in June, accusing it of trampling on EU privacy law by tracking people without a Facebook account without their consent.
At stake is the so-called ‘datr’ cookie, which Facebook places on people’s br