VentureBeat via Reuters reported that the French data protection authority on Monday gave Facebook three months to refrain from tracking non-users’ web activity without their consent
and ordered the social network to stop transferring personal data to the U.S. "The French order is the first significant action to be taken against a company transferring personal data to the United
States following an EU court ruling last year that struck down an agreement that had been relied on by thousands of companies, including Facebook, to avoid cumbersome EU data transfer rules."
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