Complying with the regulator’s order to recheck ages of all its Italian users, the company identified more than 500K who were either confirmed younger than 13 or were determined likely to be under 16.
This is part of growing opposition to the idea – which Facebook has so far ignored.
Privacy Affairs’ GDPR Tracker provides a country-by-country breakdown of fines levied since the law’s inception in May 2018. Italy, France, Germany and the UK had the highest total fines, while more (22) were levied against companies in Spain than anywhere else.
Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation. The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.