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

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Sat Aug 20 10:03:11 EDT 2011


On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


I don't think that follows at all. What the DE authorities can try to do is
prosecute German websites for using the "Like" button.  I have serious
doubts that FB will disable "Like" for all German FB users.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route
indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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