#The Verge - All Posts IFRAME: //www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-5XTZVB Trending now Six senators accidentally just admitted they are clueless about internet speeds * Google just published a free, three-month course on deep learning * Oracle just revealed how much money Google makes from Android * The Donald Trump programming language is not for dummies or losers * * * * 24 New articles Previous January 22, 2016 * 3:42 PM An ‘iPhone 5SE’ might come as soon as March * 3:38 PM The Academy announces goal to 'double number of diverse members' after Oscar backlash * 3:27 PM Tweet hashtags at the Game of Thrones account to see some teasers for season six * 3:02 PM Atari is bringing 100 classic games to PC * 2:46 PM Sundance Film Festival 2016: The best new films, shows and VR * 2:38 PM Other People review: A cancer dramedy in which other people are the punchlines * 2:15 PM Gillian Anderson had to fight for equal pay for the new X-Files miniseries * 1:00 PM Who’s behind the weird bills that would make selling encrypted smartphones illegal in New York and California? * 12:03 PM Learn how technology shaped T-Pain’s career in our extended interview * 11:54 AM The Parrot Bebop 2 drone is fun, fine, and fatally flawed — our review * 11:11 AM 11 new trailers you should watch this week * 10:35 AM Japan Display developing OLED screens, sparking new iPhone rumors * 9:31 AM Microsoft is now selling more powerful Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 models * 9:25 AM Eleanor Friedberger's New View is a small album for small pleasures * 9:00 AM Nomineering, Week 3: How the Academy fixed being out of touch 45 years ago * 8:57 AM Studying gamers teaches us a lot about games too * 8:42 AM Google just published a free, three-month course on deep learning * 7:51 AM I blame that ugly battery case for Apple's stock price tumble * 7:30 AM This Safari bug is the best ad for Chrome yet * 6:50 AM Tinder now helps users find STD testing sites * 6:41 AM Ending the holy war? 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The change means that if you don’t have a Facebook account, you can’t view Belgian Facebook pages — including public profiles like those of local businesses. The decision comes after a November court order saying Facebook has run afoul of European privacy law, which is much more stringent than in the US. Facebook limited access to its website rather than remove a tracking cookie, which can live in the user’s browser for up to two years. In the US, Facebook can place cookies like these without asking for permission, but in Europe, companies must get user permission to plant tracking software. Facebook members have consented to being tracked, and the company says the cookie is for security purposes — preventing the creation of fake accounts, account hijacking, and online theft. "Facebook says its cookie was designed to protect user security" "We had hoped to address the BPC's concerns in a way that allowed us to continue using a security cookie that protected Belgian people from more than 33,000 takeover attempts in the past month," Facebook said in a statement given to the BBC. "We're disappointed we were unable to reach an agreement and now people will be required to log in or register for an account to see publicly available content on Facebook." The company plans on contesting the order, which it should receive later this week, but for now Facebook will no longer install the cookie file for users who are not signed in or do not have accounts. Facebook and the EU don’t see eye-to-eye on privacy, and this isn’t the only case. In October, an EU ruling invalidated a 15-year-old agreement between European countries and American companies about the transfer of personal information to US data centers. 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