German Authorities Report the Facebook in Law
German authorities have cast a legal complaint to report on Facebook. Social networking sites are considered to have store personal data of people who are not members of Facebook for distribution to marketing interests.
Under German privacy laws, Facebook can be fined up to tens of thousands of Euros. “We thought that by storing data from a third party in this context, the same as against data privacy laws,” said Director of the Data Protection Authority, Hamburg, John Caspar.
Quoted from the BBC, Caspar said it had received numerous complaints from people who are not members of Facebook, but admit they have information on those sites. They accuse Facebook has taken a non facebookers personal data without permission.
Meanwhile, Facebook itself justify the existence of such a complaint letter. Mark Zuckerberg’s company was given time till August 11, 2010 to answer a legal complaint addressed to him.
“Millions of Germans opened the Facebook site every day to find
their friends, share information and connect to the world, “said Facebook spokesperson Stefano Hessel.
He added that the site with a membership of almost 500 million people this plan will review the complaint and provide immediate feedback within a certain timeframe.
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