People work with their laptops in front of the Facebook logo at the new Facebook Innovation Hub during a preview media tour in Berlin, Germany, February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
BERLIN: A German court has fined Facebook €100,000 (RM455,575) for refusing to follow an order to adequately inform users about how it was using their intellectual property, a consumer group said.
News of the ruling followed a visit last week by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in which he mounted a charm offensive in the face of increasing antipathy in Germany towards the world's biggest social media network prompted by fears for data protection.
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