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In principle yes, in practice Facebook does not follow the EU laws. For example, they are required to provide you with all the data they hold about you. I reque
by zmb_ 9y ago
In principle yes, in practice Facebook does not follow the EU laws. For example, they are required to provide you with all the data they hold about you. I requested this data (shadow profile) from them multiple times, they never responded. The next step would be to contact the Irish authorities responsible for overseeing FB, but from what I read they don't process complaints against FB, and the next place would be some EU court to force them to do their job.
- bigbugbag 9y agoFacebook sometimes submit to European laws. Facebook turned off their facial recognition after Germany made it illegal, registered used data has been made available for download among a few other cases. Recently Facebook got fined 110 millions by France for lying to antitrust regulators during the vetting of the whatsapp deal, a few days before it got fined the maximum of 150k euros for repeated infringement to local privacy laws (maximum has since been raised to a percentage of the worlwide revenue) and a few days later it got a 3 millions fine in Italy for a similar privacy offense. I'm not sure shadow profiles are covered by the legal obligation as facebook never acknowledged the existence of those for they are illegal in the EU. More about the difficulties and process to get your data from facebook here: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...