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Title: Facebook International Privacy Lawsuit Post by: validium on August 02, 2014, 04:30:18 PM Quote The suit is seeking damages of €500 ($537) per user, and injunctions to be levied on the company for the following breaches: 1. Failing to get "effective consent" for using data 2. Implementing a legally invalid data use policy 3. Tracking users online outside of Facebook via "Like" buttons 4. Using big data to monitor users 5. Failing to make Graph Search opt-in 6. The unauthorized passing of user data to external apps 7. Its involvement in NSA's Prism program, designed to extract personal data from the public's internet use. (Schrems is pursuing a separate case on this due to be heard by the European Court of Justice.) Links: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/facebook-hit-with-international-class-action-privacy-suit/ Facebook lawsuit website: https://www.fbclaim.com/ui/signin Your thoughts on this? Title: Re: Facebook International Privacy Lawsuit Post by: Mobius on August 03, 2014, 05:02:29 AM The European privacy laws are ridiculous. This will likely make it to the European high court and the privacy laws will be challenged.
There have been several articles in the news about people forcing newspapers to remove articles about people that shine a negative light on them, but are factually true. Title: Re: Facebook International Privacy Lawsuit Post by: Divinespark on August 03, 2014, 05:06:54 AM European privacy laws are not ridiculous, they are pretty much the only ones still trying to protect our rights in an uphill battle against pervasive digital encroachment as pioneered by the likes of Google & FB
Title: Re: Facebook International Privacy Lawsuit Post by: Mobius on August 04, 2014, 02:34:44 AM European privacy laws are not ridiculous, they are pretty much the only ones still trying to protect our rights in an uphill battle against pervasive digital encroachment as pioneered by the likes of Google & FB Both google and facebook provide additional information to people then what is otherwise available. Any one using either of these services knows very well what data is collected and can choose not to use these websites if they didn't want their information used this way. The European privacy laws essentially amount to censorship One way to look at what the privacy laws can do is this: A scammer could potentially scam users on these forums out of bitcoin. The scammer would receive negative trust and there would likely be a lot of scam reports on them on the scam accusations page. The scammer could then request to have the negative information about him removed via the privacy laws, allowing him to attempt a similar scam. I don't think it would work on this forum because you cannot generally link someone's identity in RL to their username here, however the principle is the same. |