xx PARIS: Facebook has been fined €150,000 (B5.7 million, US$165,645) by France's CNIL data watchdog for failure to prevent its users' data from being accessed by advertisers.
CNIL said its fine - imposed on both Facebook Inc and Facebook Ireland - was part of a wider European probe also being carried out in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany into some of Facebook's practices.
The €150,000 fine is small in the context of the company which has quarterly revenue of about US$8 billion and a stock market capitalisation which stands at around US$435 billion.