Facebook Confronts Wave of Privacy Probes in Europe

Wall Street Journal: Facebook is confronting a wave of probes in Europe into its privacy practices, escalating tensions between European authorities and a handful of U.S-based tech giants. Government privacy watchdogs from France, Spain and Italy have in recent weeks joined a group of regulators investigating the social-networking firm’s privacy controls, officials said, doubling the number of European countries analyzing the way Facebook handles the personal information and connections gleaned from more than 300 million users in Europe.