Irish data protection announces house call at Facebook

Irish data protection announces house call at Facebook
Facebook violates privacy against? 16 complaints lodged a group of Austrian law students with the relevant supervisors in Ireland - but anyway who wants to personally stop by and check the Facebook deal with data.
Hamburg - The Viennese law student Max Schrems is surprised. In mid-August he and his friends to the Irish data protection submitted 16 ads because they believe that Facebook violates European law. Is now clear that the Authority will investigate the allegations, announced a home visit on Facebook. Four to five days would be needed in order to check everything very carefully. With Facebook, the privacy advocates have already made contact.
Schrems had not expected so quickly with a first success. "Now we have the baddest gun against Facebook in the hand," he told the Austrian newspaper "Standard". The Austrians have complained in Ireland, because Facebook has located its European operations there. For German users of the contact person is therefore the establishment in Dublin. Approximately 300 employees work there for the network.
Strictly speaking, there are two different procedures, is to learn from the Irish authorities. The allegations of the students is where you normally would be done with an exchange of correspondence. But anyway, a tax audit was planned on Facebook. 30-40 of the Data Protection Commissioner does it every year from companies, some even without registration. The allegations of the students are scheduled to play in Facebook-examination now of course a role.
On Monday state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein have had experience again, that they for privacy at Facebook did not have jurisdiction. Before the domestic and legal committee in Kiel showed Facebook lobbyist Richard Allan indeed ready to talk - but stressed it by abiding by the law in Ireland that agree with the EU Directive.
Just that now the students deny. One of her allegations: facebook save data even then, if these users have actually been deleted. They determined that by making use of its right, that companies must publish in the EU to request any information they hold about customers. Other displays deal with excessive data usage, which features face detection and data security. All 16 complaints have documented the students on their own website.