Reuters: The French data protection authority on Monday gave Facebook three months to stop watching non-users' web activities without their consent and ordered the social network to stop transferring personal data to the United States.
The French mandate is the first major action requiring measures to be taken against the transfer of personal data to the United States.
The transatlantic Safe Harbor pact, which allowed data to be transferred from Europe to America, was ruled illegal last year amid concerns about mass eavesdropping by the US government. At the time, European data protection authorities said data transfer companies had three months to create legal alternatives. solutions for data transfer and storage.
This deadline expired last week, meaning that regulators may start taking legal action against companies that still use the Safe Harbor Data Transfer Agreement.
France's regulator said Facebook was even tracking non-users users μέσω ενός cookie που τοποθετηθεί στο program of their browsing when they visit a σελίδα on Facebook which does not comply with French privacy law.
If Facebook does not comply within the three-month deadline, it will be fined fine.
