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Daily Dashboard | CNIL issues formal advisory to Facebook on nonuser tracking Related reading: UK Parliament committee to review EU-UK adequacy agreement

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On Monday, the French data protection authority, the CNIL, issued a formal notice to Facebook stating it must comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. After an on-site and online inspection — together with a documentary audit — the CNIL found that Facebook violates France’s Data Protection Act in multiple ways. One, the company collects data on nonusers without consent, according to the CNIL press release, as well as data on sexual orientation and the religious and political views of users without their explicit consent. The CNIL also warns that Facebook uses cookies without proper notice, does not provide tools for users who do not want to be profiled for advertising purposes, and, perhaps most ominously, transfers data to the U.S. under Safe Harbor. This report for The Privacy Advisor looks into the formal notice and includes commentary from Facebook, alongside tech and policy sources.
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