Friday, November 11, 2011

Facebook On European Commission Data Protection Laws.

The European Commission says companies like Facebook need to be subject to European data protection laws to a facebook says it is not worried because it is already compliant with said regulations and the earlier this week, the European Commission (EC, the governing body of 27 European member states), declared it wants non-European businesses that store information on European citizens in a Facebook to be subject to European data protection laws.

The German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner you may remember as the woman who told her colleagues to avoid Facebook met with EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding and the duo released the following joint statemente we both believe that companies direct their services to European consumers should be subject to EU data protection laws otherwise they should not be able to do business on our internal market to this also applies to social networks with users in the EU.

We have to make sure that they comply with EU law and that EU law is enforced even is based in a 3rd country and even if its data are stored in a cloud to be my colleague, Zack Whittaker, argues this updated European directive will shake cloud computing industry to the core lawmakers will single out social networks as a prime target for change to a he believes the statement should “send shivers down the spine of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.”

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