Facebook facing privacy actions across Europe as France fines firm €150k
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#2PNQW)
French regulator hits firm with maximum fine, while Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Spain continue investigations
Facebook has been fined a150,000 (129,000) by France's data protection watchdog and is being investigated by Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain for data privacy violations around the tracking of users and non-users and the use of user data for advertising.
The data regulators clubbed together to form a so-called contact group to analyse the changes Facebook made to its privacy policy in 2014. The French watchdog CNIL hit Facebook with the maximum fine possible at the point at which it started its investigation in 2014. As of October last year CNIL can now issue fines of up to a3m.
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