[governance] Another Immovable Legal Object Meeting An Irresistable Internet Force (this time it ain't Taipei...

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

The reality is whether the company hosting the Application is based abroad,
the fact that its reach is in Germany, and where according to the German
Regulators, privacy laws are breached then their responsibility is to notify
whoever is in breach. It follows then that Facebook can either revise the
protocols or web analytics for the German community where they are not in
breach.

There can be an assumption that people sign up to facebook because they want
to socialise and in part give up part of their privacy rights. However, who
then controls the monitoring and analytics which is then potentially sold to
potential customers who benefit from the "market intelligence".

Do we leave it to the country where Facebook is registered?

How is the cloud regulated? Is it exempted because it is the "cloud" or is
the cloud a "fallacy"?

Sala

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:25 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> A friend of mine on another list posted this which is from the Regulators
>> in Germany, see https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/<https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm>
>> 20110819-facebook-en.htm<https://www.datenschutzzentrum.de/presse/20110819-facebook-en.htm>
>>
>> Apparently Facebook has till September 2011 to comply.
>>
>
>
> From the link you sent: "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."
>
>
> It's not that the DE authorities are taking on FB itself, they are
> currently targeting websites that use the "Like" button.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
> indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>



-- 
Sala

" Perfect Stillness in the midst of the noise".
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