<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com">salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">A friend of mine on another list posted this which is from the Regulators in Germany, see <span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm" style="color:rgb(17, 65, 112)" target="_blank">https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/</a></span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm" style="color:rgb(17, 65, 112)" target="_blank">20110819-facebook-en.htm</a></span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Apparently Facebook has till September 2011 to comply.</font></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>From the link you sent: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; ">Institutions must be aware that they cannot shift their responsibility for data privacy upon the enterprise Facebook which does not have an establishment in Germany and also not upon the users."</span></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; "></span>It's not that the DE authorities are taking on FB itself, they are currently targeting websites that use the "Like" button.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>