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Read the article. The violation was: "Facebook hides default settings that are not privacy-friendly in its privacy center and does not provide sufficient infor
by peoplewindow 9y ago
Read the article. The violation was:
"Facebook hides default settings that are not privacy-friendly in its privacy center and does not provide sufficient information about it when users register"
How is putting privacy settings in the privacy center hiding them? What is "sufficient" information when users register? Where in law are these things spelled out?
Germany isn't punishing Facebook for anything actually concrete or real. Rather the German courts and regulators seem to think they should design Facebook's UI instead of Facebook. This is not how free markets work and if you were creating a new company, why let some random German regional court waste your time on disputes over the position of widgets in your user interface?
- madez 9y agoThere are regulations for agreements. In Germany for example, when you rent a flat, the customers have inalienable rights that he can't legally-bindingly forfeit even in written contract form. There is no such thing as a fully free market, and that is a good thing. The complaint is not that they want to control every detail. Certain parts of the agreements might simply not be valid just by clicking a check box, or the parts are not displayed in a form that is considered appropiate. Imagine a document with 15000 words that is unnegotiable by you. Will your mother read that so she can give meaningful consent? I don't think so, so the consent isn't valid. This line of reasoning is about common sense, and not about formalities, and I'm glad it is relevant in law.