Post by account_disabled on Jan 30, 2024 10:15:10 GMT
Facebook's privacy policy has resulted in a series of setbacks for the social network in Europe. This week, several data protection agencies published statements that they intend to punish the company because of the way it treats its users' personal information. All measures were announced this Tuesday (16/5). In France, Facebook was fined 150 thousand euros for failing to comply with local data protection laws. The data protection regulatory agency, CNIL, understood that the company violates the country's privacy laws by saving browsing information to sell it to companies for targeted advertising.
reproduction Entity accuses Facebook of illegally Buy Phone Number List storing and selling browsing information of its users in France. According to the CNIL, investigations began in 2015, after Facebook announced that it would change its privacy policy. The entity then decided to check whether the new rules were in accordance with the French Data Protection Law. After a hearing in March this year, it was discovered that even the new policies were illegal in France. It was discovered that Facebook, without legal provision, stores, compiles and sells browsing information from all its users in France so that companies can carry out targeted advertising. And the information described in its privacy policy for users does not make it clear how this is done.
Under French law, Facebook must inform its users of their rights and must ask permission to collect personal information, especially if the aim is to sell it later. The social network has 33 million users in France. In Spain, the data protection agency decided to open two inquiries to investigate allegations that Facebook violates its digital privacy laws.” He further explained that the judge's opposing position to the author's request cannot be considered an omission. “It should also be noted that the judge is not obliged to refute, one by one, the arguments brought by the party, as long as the grounds used were sufficient to support the decision, as in fact occurred in the case in question.
reproduction Entity accuses Facebook of illegally Buy Phone Number List storing and selling browsing information of its users in France. According to the CNIL, investigations began in 2015, after Facebook announced that it would change its privacy policy. The entity then decided to check whether the new rules were in accordance with the French Data Protection Law. After a hearing in March this year, it was discovered that even the new policies were illegal in France. It was discovered that Facebook, without legal provision, stores, compiles and sells browsing information from all its users in France so that companies can carry out targeted advertising. And the information described in its privacy policy for users does not make it clear how this is done.
Under French law, Facebook must inform its users of their rights and must ask permission to collect personal information, especially if the aim is to sell it later. The social network has 33 million users in France. In Spain, the data protection agency decided to open two inquiries to investigate allegations that Facebook violates its digital privacy laws.” He further explained that the judge's opposing position to the author's request cannot be considered an omission. “It should also be noted that the judge is not obliged to refute, one by one, the arguments brought by the party, as long as the grounds used were sufficient to support the decision, as in fact occurred in the case in question.