Facebook Fined $8 Million Dollars In Italy For 'Misleading Practices'

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Facebook fined €7 million in Italy for 'misleading' data practices

February 17th, 2021


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"They still do not provide immediate and clear information on the collection and use of user data for commercial purposes." ...

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Italy's competition watchdog has fined Facebook €7 million for "misleading" data protection practices.  The tech giant has been accused of not accurately and fairly  informing its users when their data was being collected, the Italian  Competition Authority said. The authority already fined the social media platform €5 million in  November 2018 for unfair commercial practices and ordered it to adjust  its practices. "Facebook Ireland Ltd. and Facebook Inc. failed to comply with the  warning to remove the unfair practice on the use of user data and did  not publish the corrective statement requested by the Authority," "They still do not provide immediate and clear information on the collection and use of user data for commercial purposes." ...

The platform said they had made changes to their terms of service to clarify how Facebook makes money, by charging businesses and other organisations to display ads. According to the AGCM, the social network had deceived new users on  the platform by not informing them "immediately and adequately" how it  collects and uses their data for commercial purposes... Facebook was initially fined and ordered to publish a corrected  statement on data policies on "the homepage of the company's website for  Italy, on the Facebook app and on the personal page of each registered  Italian user". "The current investigation has ascertained that the two companies  have not published the corrective statement and have not ceased the  established unfair practice" ...

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