Facebook to improve services to protect individual rights

Facebook will improve some of its services in Europe in the next six months towards transparency and protection of customer data outside of North America better.

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg at the Facebook developer conference in San Francisco. Photo: Reuters.

The decision was made after Facebook committee Protection of personal data Ireland (IDPC) completed three months of research activities of the international branch of this group in Ireland and concluded: privacy policies Facebook's complexity and lack of transparency.
Do branch is located in Dublin (Ireland) Facebook should be subject to privacy laws, according to European standards, which is stricter than the regulations of the U.S., especially in a matter of time data storage. Facebook in Ireland branch in charge of the operation of all Facebook users outside North America, the majority of the total 800 million customers of the company.
Results of tests show that IDPC risk is not your information is disclosed publicly. For example they may not know that everyone, whether familiar or not, will see the images posted on the wall until revised privacy. The improvement measures that Facebook launched as provide users more information about how Facebook and a third-party application process their personal information; how to remove the random information more timely; scene customer explicitly when using the automatic face recognition if you want to tag your photos. Explanation of privacy policy will also be simplified Facebook.
The examination of Facebook activity had been planned before IDPC officials Ireland received 22 complaints from a group of law students in Austria. They own campaign "Europe against Facebook" to protest Facebook to store information that users have deleted. There are also three complaints from consumers council of Norway. IPDC not only subject to sanction recommendations. If Facebook does not comply, the agency will conduct the proceedings that Facebook could be fined up to 3,000 euro. And if the conclusions serious breach of data policies, a court sentenced the group to at least 100,000 euros.
"Our function is not a decision someone has violated the law. We help organizations fully comply with the provisions of law in the best way, "Billy Hawkers, committee members said. "Facebook has agreed to provide the best measures to improve the situation within six months." An assessment of the Facebook action commitments will be announced in July the following year.
"This is a practical way for Facebook to test a relatively new service and this stand," the charge of data protection in Linklater LLP law firm, Mr. Tanguy Van Overstraeten said. "They are facing their own success. They have to solve many different views as radial geography. " Operation of Facebook in Europe have criticized repeatedly. Many claim to denounce corporations sell personal data for advertising companies, or store information that the user has been deleted. Investigators have studied Ireland accused Facebook selling personal information and conclusions are unfounded information.
Earlier, in the U.S., Facebook was forced to settle the claims of the U.S. Trade Commission (FTC) after the FTC accused the corporation does not protect personal information of users or disclose their data. After the incident, Facebook pay attention more closely to the privacy of customers in the next 20 years, namely the need to explicitly consent before sharing data was published, many criteria apply stricter privacy. These activities of Facebook will be an independent third party monitoring.