Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#3G2E8)
Social network instructed to delete illegally collected data or face a100m in fines after it loses case over consent and tracking
Facebook has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop collecting data on users or face daily fines of a250,000 a day, or up to a100m.
The court ruled on Friday that Facebook had broken privacy laws by tracking people on third-party sites in the latest salvo in a long-running battle between the Belgian commission for the protection of privacy (CPP) and the social network.
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