European privacy watchdogs join forces to probe Facebook

UNDER SCRUTINY: The Netherlands is coordinating the project, which consists of a working group involving representatives from the five countries that will look into Facebook

PARIS: European data protection authorities have joined forces to probe Facebook’s privacy controls, a French watchdog said, putting the popular US social media giant under fresh pressure. 

“There is concerted collective action between five European authorities, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain,” said Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, head of France’s CNIL privacy watchdog.