Facebook, as it was found out by the agency, collects data about a person: his ideology, gender, religious beliefs and personal preferences in food and clothing. At the same time, the social network does not inform users that it is processing information about them and does not ask permission. It can be used in different ways. Most often it is sold to advertising agencies to let them know whom to offer what products to.

A Facebook user with average knowledge of new technology would not know about the data collection and its subsequent use and storage, and unregistered users are not even aware that Facebook is collecting data.

Such violations, according to the agency, are very serious, so the company was fined €1.2 million.

The fact that social networks collect data about their users became known last year. Germany has already banned Facebook from collecting data from users of the messenger WhatsApp, when it was found that the social network had collected information about 35 million users.

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