France closes ‘cookies’ case against Facebook

Paris: French privacy regulators on Thursday closed a case against Facebook after determining the US tech giant had changed the way it collected user data to comply with the law.

Facebook was slapped with a 60-million-euro ($61-million) fine last December when the French regulator CNIL ruled it was failing to allow users to easily opt out of cookies, tiny data files that track online browsing.

CNIL told the firm’s parent company Meta to fix the issue within three months or face further punishment.