Other EU Countries Want a Piece of Facebook’s Privacy Concession in Belgium

The data-protection authorities in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and the Hamburg region of Germany published a joint declaration (embedded below), which called for the social network to suspend its use of cookies—particularly the datr cookie—in their jurisdictions, as the company already agreed to do in Belgium, IDG News Services reported.

The five data-protection authorities wrote in their declaration:

While recognizing the right of Facebook to appeal the aforementioned judgment, the contact group expects Facebook to comply with these orders in all territories of the EU as a means of contributing to ensure consistency with the requirements of the European Directive 95/46/EC and Directive 2002/58/EC, as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC.