Facebook’s troubles in Europe are building as it faces both EU and German antitrust investigations, adding to privacy probes across the 28-nation bloc. Photo: ReutersLuxembourg/Brussels: Facebook Inc. was slapped with France’s maximum privacy fine of €150,000 ($166,000) and warned of further penalties from other European regulators over how it targets advertising and tracks users. French and Dutch data protection authorities ruled that Facebook violated national laws on how they handle user data. Facebook’s troubles in Europe are building as it faces both EU and German antitrust investigations, adding to privacy probes across the 28-nation bloc. The European privacy watchdogs said Facebook argued that only Irish data-protection law applies because it is based there and only the Irish data protection authority could supervise how it handles data.

Source: Mint May 16, 2017 15:00 UTC