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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11859

12 September 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Jha
Spanish data protection agency fines Facebook €1.2 million
Strasbourg, 11/09/2017 (Agence Europe)

On Monday 11 September, the Spanish data protection agency announced that it had fined Facebook €1.2 million for breaching the protection of its users' data.

The American company is accused of collecting information such as the political views and religion of its users without having obtained their clear consent, AFP reports. The Spanish agency also argues that Facebook uses these data for advertising purposes and does not remove them, even if a user's account is closed.

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