<html><head><base href="x-msg://76/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks Michael, </div><div><br></div><div>as a European data protection independent expert I would suggest those interested in the matter to look also at the US Civil society's and FTC's actions on the matter , see </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://epic.org/privacy/facebook/">http://epic.org/privacy/facebook/</a></div><div><br></div><div>All the best to you ..2013 have to be heavy too...get ready</div><div><br></div><div>Marie</div><div><br></div><div>/Le 28 déc. 2012 à 16:49, michael gurstein a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">For those with an interest, a colleague who evidently wishes to remain anonymous has just pointed me to a series of documents which are an audit of Facebook's privacy approach by the Irish Data Protection Commission, Facebook's response and the re-audit by the Irish Data Protection Commission as below<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Report_Final.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Report_Final.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-public-policy-europe/facebook-and-the-irish-data-protection-commission/288934714486394" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-public-policy-europe/facebook-and-the-irish-data-protection-commission/288934714486394</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=1233&m=f" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=1233&m=f</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has also done a review:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090827_e.asp" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090827_e.asp</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Irish undertook the review (acting it appears on behalf of the EU) because FB is an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>Irish</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>registered company (presumably for tax purposes). <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Canadian Commissioner undertook the review to ensure that<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">“These changes mean that the privacy of 200 million (2009) Facebook users in Canada and around the world will be far better protected,” says Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Does this mean that every country in the world needs to do it's own audit of FB?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Does this meant that every country in the world needs to do a re-audit everytime FB changes its approach to privacy/tweaks its business model!?!<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">How/where/with what resources does the individual who feels somehow aggrieved by the activities undertaken by FB gain legal redress?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Is Facebook too big to be allowed to fail in its (data privacy and other) obligations (<a href="http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/is-facebook-a-human-right-egypt-and-tunisia-transform-social-media/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">Is Facebook a Human Right?</a>)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Isn't this a matter of global Internet governance?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">(Do we really expect the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland to ensure the privacy rights of 1 billion global users of Facebook?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">M<o:p></o:p></div></div>____________________________________________________________<br>You received this message as a subscriber on the list:<br> <a href="mailto:governance@lists.igcaucus.org" style="color: blue; 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