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It's interesting because there are several German social networks (XING, StudiVZ, wer-kennt-wen, ...) that also do not allow their users to use pseudonyms. As f
by Hopka 14y ago
It's interesting because there are several German social networks (XING, StudiVZ, wer-kennt-wen, ...) that also do not allow their users to use pseudonyms. As far as I know, none of them have been ordered to change their policies.
- sdoering 14y agoYepp. As good, as one might find this move from the German regulators, one must wonder, why only one network is targeted. But that is nothing new here in Germany. Most often it is one symbolic network (often times Google), that is the target. So one might suspect, that this is nothing more than symbolic policy. The data-protecting people in our government are toothless kittens, they have no real influence and these moves seem to me only to be made, to show, that they are still there and to justify their existence. Sad to see, but there does not seem to be any real chance, that this will change.
- drucken 14y agoSo, this "decree" has no meaning even if fought in a German legal court?
- rmc 14y agoDepends. Some countries empower the local data protection commission to make binding injunctions forcing a company/person to do/not do a thing. I know Ireland has this. No idea of Germany, but presume it's similar.
- sdoering 14y agoThey might force FB to do this. But having seen what happens here with Google or all the other cases, I really doubt their "power" or will to do much more, than symbolic policy.
- rmc 14y agoYou know the Irish Data Protection Commissioner force Facebook to make some privacy related changes, right?
- jeltz 14y agoYou sure about this? My interpretation is that they chose one site to test the case in court and will then if successful go after the others.
- fs111 14y agothe VZs are dead, wer-kennt-wen is also dying and not using real names on XING does not make much sense IMO. I guess, they only care about the real big fish in the pond for now.
- rmc 14y agoI would presume that they will have to change their policies soon if this is the new interpretation of the law.