Facebook fined 1.44 million dollar for privacy violations in Spain
Madrid … News Time
A $ 1.44 million was penalized on the violation of the rules on the social networking website’s Facebook in Spain. Spain’s data protection agency said it has penalized Facebook on failure to prevent advertisers from accessing private data. According to the agency, Facebook has gathered its customers’ private information in Spain and they are not clearly told how to use this information. The Spanish agency further states that the data collected by Facebook includes user’s ideas, religious beliefs, personal likes, and other information. According to the agency, there are general and non-explicit rules and regulations in the Facebook Privacy Policy and before collecting the personal information of the users, they do not know what is infringement of the laws of information protection. According to the Data Protection Agency, a user has requested that the information collected by the user should be removed from Facebook’s scripts, but Facebook did not. Facebook was contacted in this regard, however the company did not respond. It is believed that in May this year, France also fined a million euros on Facebook on failing to stop advertisers’ access to consumer data.
