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Facebook Must Stop Tracking Belgian Web Users, Court Rules

  • Fine of up to 250,000 euros a day if company doesn’t comply
  • Social network to appeal, says cookies are industry standard

Facebook Inc. must stop tracking Belgian users’ surfing outside the social network and delete data it’s already gathered, or it will face fines of 250,000 ($312,000) euros a day, a Belgian court ruled.

Facebook “doesn’t sufficiently inform” clients about the data it gathers on their broader web use, nor does it explain what it does with the information or say how long it stores it, the Brussels Court of First Instance said in a statement.