Facebook is increasingly facing prosecutions in Europe, and this time it is in Spain that the social network has been fined for its practices of collecting personal data.
Europe is not the most welcoming for the Facebook social network that faces a proliferation of lawsuits by governments. If Germany quickly positioned itself against the social network, France and Italy had more recently condemned Facebook for its tax optimization.
This time, Spain has just imposed a fine of 1.2 million euros on Facebook for collecting personal data from users without first asking them. According to the Spanish Data Protection Agency, the social network would have collected data "on ideology, gender, religious beliefs, personal tastes and Internet browsing, without clearly informing users" of the service. Added to this is the fact that these elements are exploited for advertising purposes, again without warning the users, and in breach of the Data Protection Act.
According to the Agency, the network is not clear enough about the volume of information harvested, how it is stored and used or resold. The issue of data retention also poses a problem as Facebook continues to exploit the collected data even when the user de-enrolls the service and requests that its data be erased.
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