karl
December 4th, 2012, 05:16 PM
A Europe wide student group plans to launch legal action claiming Facebook has not done enough to protect the privacy of its hundreds of millions of members.
Privacy campaign group europe-v-facebook, which has been lobbying for better data protection by Facebook for over a year, said it planned to take legal action in Ireland, where Facebook has its international headquarters.
The move is one of a number of campaigns against the giants of the internet, which are under pressure from investors to generate more revenue from their huge user bases but which also face criticism for storing and sharing personal information.
Full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2242744/Facebook-hit-European-legal-threat-students-privacy-policies.html#ixzz2E7l0pWp0
Privacy campaign group europe-v-facebook, which has been lobbying for better data protection by Facebook for over a year, said it planned to take legal action in Ireland, where Facebook has its international headquarters.
The move is one of a number of campaigns against the giants of the internet, which are under pressure from investors to generate more revenue from their huge user bases but which also face criticism for storing and sharing personal information.
Full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2242744/Facebook-hit-European-legal-threat-students-privacy-policies.html#ixzz2E7l0pWp0