[governance] Privacy Audits of Facebook by the Irish Data Protection Commission and Responses

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

This means that every country's privacy laws are different and so yes they will need to do this independently

--srs (htc one x)


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From: "michael gurstein" <gurstein at gmail.com>
To: <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
Subject: [governance] Privacy Audits of Facebook by the Irish Data Protection Commission and Responses
Date: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 9:19 PM


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

 

http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Report_Final.pdf

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-public-policy-europe/facebook-and-the
-irish-data-protection-commission/288934714486394

http://dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=1233
<http://dataprotection.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=1233&m=f> &m=f

http://dataprotection.ie/documents/press/Facebook_Ireland_Audit_Review_Repor
t_21_Sept_2012.pdf

 

The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has also done a review:

http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090827_e.asp

 

The Irish undertook the review (acting it appears on behalf of the EU)
because FB is an Irish registered company (presumably for tax purposes).  

 

The Canadian Commissioner undertook the review to ensure that 

"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.

 

Does this mean that every country in the world needs to do it's own audit of
FB?

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!?!

How/where/with what resources does the individual who feels somehow
aggrieved by the activities undertaken by FB gain legal redress?

Is Facebook too big to be allowed to fail in its (data privacy and other)
obligations (Is Facebook a Human Right?
<http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/is-facebook-a-human-right-egypt-an
d-tunisia-transform-social-media/> )

Isn't this a matter of global Internet governance? 

(Do we really expect the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland to ensure
the privacy rights of 1 billion global users of Facebook? 

 

M

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