Facebook fined $8.4M for data collection practices in Italy
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Aaron Nicodemus2021-02-17T16:37:00
Facebook has been fined €7 million (U.S. $8.4 million) by Italy’s antitrust regulator for failing to address issues related to its personal data collection practices.
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