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Belgian court on Monday gave 48-hour notice to Facebook to stop tracking the internet users who do not have accounts with the social media network. If the company fails to follow the order, they can be fined up to 250,000 Euros everyday. This order comes after a privacy regulator in Belgium lodged a case against Facebook for indiscriminately monitoring the internet users when they like or share the posts, even if they are not members of the network. Facebook said that they will appeal against the decision made by the court. The court released a statement, "Today the judge... ordered the social network Facebook to stop tracking and registering Internet usage by people who surf the Internet in Belgium, in the 48 hours which follow this statement". If Facebook ignores this order it must pay a fine of 250,000 euros a day to the Belgian Privacy Commission", reports AFP

The ruling declared on Monday came after a month long suit that began in June when a Belgian regulator accused Facebook of disrupting the privacy laws of EU by keeping a track on people without their knowledge or consent. Margot Neyskens, spokeswoman for Bart Tommelein, Belgian Secretary of State for the Protection of Privacy said in an emailed statement, "Facebook cannot follow people on the internet who are not members of Facebook which is very logical because they cannot have given permission to follow them". Tommelein said on Monday that Belgian court has jurisdiction over Facebook in its home ground. However, Facebook argues that since the European headquarters for the social networking giant is located in Ireland, only the Irish Data Protection Commissioner has the legal authority to limit the company's activities, reports RT News.