Facebook has been fined €150,000 ($166,400) by France’s privacy watchdog for violating the country’s data protection rules. In a statement released Tuesday, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) said Facebook has failed to properly inform users of how their personal data is tracked and shared with advertisers, though it stopped short of ordering the company to change its practices.
The CNIL’s decision is part of a broader European effort to evaluate changes to Facebook’s privacy policy that were implemented in 2014. The Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) also said Tuesday that the social network provides users with “insufficient information about the use of their personal data,” in violation of Dutch data...
