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Germany Investigating Facebook’s Facial Recognition, Again

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:06:58 +0000

Europeans are growing increasingly suspicious of Facebook’s facial-recognition efforts. Earlier this month, Norway announced that it is looking into the legality of the social network’s technology. Now, Germany is doing the same. Data-protection officials in Germany worry that Facebook is compiling a photo database of users without their consent, so they are reopening their investigation.

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Facebook Privacy Battles Heat Up In Ireland

David Cohen — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:01:33 +0000

The next big deadline for Facebook in Ireland, where it has been working with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to respond to privacy concerns originally raised by Austrian group Europe Versus Facebook last October, is this October, when several privacy objectives the two parties agreed upon are due to be implemented.

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UPDATED: Facebook Misses Ireland's Privacy Deadline

David Cohen — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:30:05 +0000

Remember the long list of privacy objectives Facebook promised Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner it would implement by the end of the first quarter of 2012? Well, it’s now the second quarter of 2012.

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Facebook Privacy Policies Challenged By Austrian Law Student

David Cohen — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:45:51 +0000

A CD containing 1,222 pages of data sparked yet another challenge of Facebook’s privacy policies, this one from a 24-year-old Austraian law student named Max Schrems.

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