French Data Protection Authority Fines Facebook For Collecting Data Without Consent

[Lucian Armasu]

France's data protection authority fined Facebook 150,000 euro over its massive collection of both user and non-user data, without their consent.

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[jowen3400]

needs to be 150000000000000000000000 Euros for them to care.

 

[gdmaclew]

FaceBook has and always will take advantage of its Users unless they get caught.
Their mission statement has always been "collect as much data as possible to sell".

 

[poochiepiano]

"150,000 euros, oh noooooooooo~" -Facebook

 

[jaber2]

FaceBook : Do you have change for 250,000 Euro note?

 

[Guest]

It's not only less than Facebook likely makes a day in France, it's much less than what the investigation must have cost.