France Gives Facebook Three Months to Comply With Privacy Order

Facebook is running into privacy-related regulatory issues in another European nation, as the social network was on the receiving end of an order from a regulator in France.

Facebook is running into privacy-related regulatory issues in another European nation, as the social network was on the receiving end of an order from a regulator in France.

Reuters reported that the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, France’s data-protection authority, ordered Facebook to stop tracking Web activity by non-users without their consent, and to stop some transfers of personal data to the U.S., within the next three months.

The CNIL issued its order as a result of the invalidation of the Safe Harbor agreement between the U.S.

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