Facebook Told by France to Stop Collecting Non-User Data
- Company faces similar order in Belgium over users's data
- EU privacy regulators are coordinating probes into Facebook
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Facebook Inc. was given three months by France’s privacy watchdog to stop storing data on people who don’t have an account with the social network as the company continues to draw objections from regulators throughout Europe.
The operator of the world’s largest social network can track online users across all the sites they visit without obtaining clear consent, France’s data protection regulator, CNIL, said in a statement late Monday.