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Facebook fined €150k by French regulator over privacy breach

Posted on May 16, 2017June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Duncan Robinson reports:

A French regulator has fined Facebook €150,000 for breaching data protection laws in the social network’s latest spat with European authorities over privacy.

The Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés imposed the sanction after finding that Facebook was collecting information on users for advertising “without having a legal bases”.

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