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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>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></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Report_Final.pdf">http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Report_Final.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-public-policy-europe/facebook-and-the-irish-data-protection-commission/288934714486394">http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-public-policy-europe/facebook-and-the-irish-data-protection-commission/288934714486394</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=1233&m=f">http://dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=1233&m=f</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf">http://dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Report_21_Sept_2012.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has also done a review:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090827_e.asp">http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090827_e.asp</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Irish undertook the review (acting it appears on behalf of the EU) because FB is an <u>Irish</u> registered company (presumably for tax purposes). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Canadian Commissioner undertook the review to ensure that <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>“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></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Does this mean that every country in the world needs to do it's own audit of FB?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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></p><p class=MsoPlainText>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/">Is Facebook a Human Right?</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Isn't this a matter of global Internet governance? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>(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></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>M<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>