Schleswig-Holstein - AllFacebook http://allfacebook.com The Unofficial Facebook Blog - Facebook News, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Business, and More! Copyright 2013 Fri, 17 May 2013 23:00:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 German Privacy Group Loses Appeal With Facebook Over Real Names Facebook has been battling users who either don’t exist in real life or are using a pseudonym, but the company has met resistance in Germany. However, a judge ruled Wednesday in an appeal case that German privacy laws (which would allow users to have whatever name they want on the social network) do not apply to Facebook, as the company’s European base is in Ireland, where regulations are more lax.

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]]> Justin Lafferty http://allfacebook.com/germany-appeal-real-names_b115919#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/germany-appeal-real-names_b115919 http://allfacebook.com/?p=115919 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:43:11 +0000 Secretary of State John Kerry Signs Wall In Facebook’s Berlin Office The Facebook Public Policy Office in Berlin has likely been in overdrive due to the social network’s ongoing conflict with the north German state of Schleswig-Holstein over whether Facebook users should be allowed to use pseudonyms, but staffers in Berlin welcomed U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Tuesday, and Kerry signed the office’s wall.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/john-kerry-berlin_b111588#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/john-kerry-berlin_b111588 http://allfacebook.com/?p=111588 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:44:03 +0000 German Court Sides With Facebook Policy Of Requiring Users’ Real Names Facebook’s good fortune in courtrooms extended overseas, as the administrative court for the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein sided with the social network and suspended the enforcement of an order that it allow users to register under pseudonyms.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/german-court-real-names_b110893#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/german-court-real-names_b110893 http://allfacebook.com/?p=110893 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:50:16 +0000 German State Turns Up Heat Vs. Facebook On Real Names Issue The data-protection commissioner for the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Thilo Weichert, took his campaign against Facebook’s insistence that users provide their real names up a notch, threatening to fine the social network £16,000 ($20,877) if it refuses to abolish that policy.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/schleswig-holstein-real-names_b107924#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/schleswig-holstein-real-names_b107924 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107924 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:15:03 +0000 Facebook, Germany At Odds Over Users’ Real Names, Pseudonyms Facebook and Germany are at odds again, this time over whether the social network’s insistence that users provide their real names conflicts with the country’s data-protection law that permits the use of pseudonyms.

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]]> David Cohen http://allfacebook.com/germany-real-names-pseudonyms_b107007#disqus_thread http://allfacebook.com/germany-real-names-pseudonyms_b107007 http://allfacebook.com/?p=107007 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:39:17 +0000