Friday 21 September 2012

Facebook complies with EU data protection law, dumps facial recognition



The Irish Data Protection Commission has said it is largely satisfied with the changes Facebook has made to comply with its July recommendations, including its removal of the facial recognition tagging system, and revealed the social network has four weeks to comply with outstanding requirements.


The investigation stemmed from a complaint made by Austrian law student Max Schrems after he found out just how much personal data the social network stores. Schrems was suitably horrified by what he uncovered: IP addresses of the machines used to access the site, along with information on other users that have logged on from the same machine; user's last location; old deleted messages and wall posts.


By: Liat Clark, Edited by: Olivia Solon


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/21/facebook-data-protection-audit

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