Facebook fined $1.4 mn in Spain for failing to protect users' data privacy
11 Sept 2017 5:00 PM IST11 Sept 2017 5:00 PM IST
Agency claims FB collected personal data from its users in Spain without obtaining their unequivocal consent.
Once people put those phrases on their Facebook profiles, the anti-Semitic topics automatically migrated onto the company's advertising platform, as if they were education or job data that would be useful to marketers, Facebook said.
Madrid: Spain's data protection watchdog said Monday it has slapped Facebook with a fine of 1.2 million euros ($1.4 million) for failing to prevent its users' data being accessed by advertisers.
Facebook has collected personal data from its users in Spain without obtaining their "unequivocal consent" and without informing them how such information would be used, the Spanish Data Protection Agency said in a statement.
( Source : AFP )
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