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Facebook ordered to stop collecting user data by Belgian court Social network instructed to delete illegally collected data or face €100m in fines after it loses ca A Facebook  has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop collecting data on users or face daily fines of €250,000 a day, or up to €100m. Sign up to the Media Briefing: news for the news-makers   Read more The court ruled on Friday that Facebook had broken privacy laws by tracking people on third-party sites in the latest salvo in a long-running battle between the Belgian commission for the protection of privacy (CPP) and the social network. “Facebook informs us insufficiently about gathering information about us, the kind of data it collects, what it does with that data and how long it stores it,” the court said. “It also does not gain our consent to collect and store all this information.” Facebook has also been ordered to delete all data it had gathered illegally on Belgian citize...