Facebook Inc. was slapped with France’s maximum privacy fine of 150,000 euros ($166,000) and warned of further penalties from other European regulators over how it targets advertising and tracks users.
French and Dutch data protection authorities ruled that Facebook violated national laws on how they handle user data. France’s CNIL said Facebook isn’t allowed to combine user data to display targeted advertising and engages in “illegal tracking” by using cookies to watch what users do on and off the site.
The Netherlands’ authority said Facebook has now agreed to stop using people’s sexual preferences to show targeted ads—and that it ...
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