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European Privacy Regulators Take Coordinated Action Against Facebook

Posted by BeauHD on from the coordinated-action dept.

An anonymous reader writes: European privacy regulators from as number of countries has made a coordinated action against Facebook for violating data protection laws. The French CNIL has sanctioned Facebook with a 150,000 EUR fine, and the regulator from Netherlands is considering a similar action. Regulators are concerned with new privacy policies of Facebook, lack of transparency, cookie handling and tracking Facebook users on third-party sites -- all without user knowledge or control. Such coordinated move is unprecedented in the history of European data protection regulators.

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  1. 150,000 EUR? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What percent of Facebook's revenue is that? 0.00001%?

    These regulators better grow some teeth if they want to be taken seriously.

  2. Re:Facebook Should Say Goodby To EU by moronoxyd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, anyone who doesn't understand what's going on with Facebook and FREE consumer accounts is a moron.

    This case is about Facebook tracking people who don't have a FB account. Since these people don't have a FB account they did not agree to anything. And Facebook had been told a year ago to stop this and they didn't.
    Do these facts (that you would have known about if you read articles about this before you commented here) affect you statement in any way? Or are you one of those people that complain about anything just for the kicks?

  3. Re:Facebook Should Say Goodby To EU by sit1963nz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously, the USA does not run the world.

    94% of the worlds population lives outside the USA
    80% of the worlds GDP is outside the USA.

    The USA has far more to loose than the rest of the world. Most of the big players earn MORE outside the USA than they do inside, if they were forced to choose they would choose the world over the USA. The US is a saturated market with little growth potential, the growth potential in the rest of the world is HUGE.

    Start pissing off the world and over 2/3 of the US economy could disappear (bring the US down to 6% of the worlds GDP in line with its population)

  4. Re:Facebook Should Say Goodby To EU by sit1963nz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Its not about USING Facebook, its that even when you are NOT a Facebook user, Facebook tracks you and builds a profile anyway.