Facebook feels sharp end of Spanish privacy stick

Facebook has been slapped with a fine from the Spanish data protection watchdog for inappropriately collecting and using personal information on some of its Spanish users.
The fine, although a bit of a meagre one, is for violating Spain’s Organic Law on Data Protection (LOPD), with the Spanish data protection agency, the AEPD, identifying two separate instances where Facebook has collected and monetized personal information without the consent of the user. This information included ideolog