The conversation between the Austrian law students Max Schrems and Richard Allan, the Chief European lobbyists of Facebook lasted six hours. Both sides reported then of constructive discussions, there was not tangible results however.Schrems had submitted 22 ads due to Facebook's handling of user data with his initiative Europe versus Facebook with the Irish data protection Commissioner. On Monday Schrems and one of his colleagues met now with Allan and an employee of American policy team of Facebook in Vienna. Schrems spoke earlier of Negotiations, Facebook only of Conversations.The 24-year old student Facebook blamed a reinterpretation of European data protection law after the meeting. For Facebook, a consent to the use of data would be already before if user is not explicitly contrary to this. This procedure is known as opt-out. His counter proposal is one of the mandatory implementation of opt - in procedure, according to which a user of respective data use must first explicitly agree.Schrems was concerned also about various technical problems in data processing and unclear responsibilities. In particular the definitive cancellation of data should prove to be difficult in the implementation. Currently, users can delete although their own data from their profiles. In the databases of the company they are still stored may. This had on Monday also the blog Ars Technica reports: who have a direct link to a photo file, the image in some cases even three years after he has deleted it on Facebook's servers found. Facebook promised Schrems a rapid Nachbesserung.Laut of a company news release is Facebook anxious, and the conversation in Vienna is a useful part of this process to resolve the points of criticism that we have received through the Office of the Irish data protection Commissioner (DPC). The company had already begun to implement the comprehensive programme on privacy improvements, which was elaborated in the audit report of DPC in December. This audit report is the first report of the Irish data protection authority DPC, which they had published in December after a comprehensive audit. So should some IP addresses that logged out users as well as non-members about the like me button on thousands sites is collected, made anonymous after ten days and will be deleted after 90 days.Formal decision by the DPC gefordertInsgesamt sees Schrems however have implemented maximum ten percent of the claims in the report. In spite of the positive action interview on Monday, he demands a formal decision from the DPC. The parties involved in the Irish District Court can litigate against them.The outcome could have worldwide effect on Facebook. According to the terms and conditions of the company all users outside of the United States and Canada have a contract with Facebook Ireland. Thus, says Schrems, applicable European data protection law for users outside Europe. It was very clear that Facebook has a strong interest in seriously to comply with the European legislation, both Facebook representatives have said that this will be still a long process, it says in a note of his initiative. A detailed log of the conversation on Monday will publish them soon.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Student accuses Facebook new interpretation of laws
The conversation between the Austrian law students Max Schrems and Richard Allan, the Chief European lobbyists of Facebook lasted six hours. Both sides reported then of constructive discussions, there was not tangible results however.Schrems had submitted 22 ads due to Facebook's handling of user data with his initiative Europe versus Facebook with the Irish data protection Commissioner. On Monday Schrems and one of his colleagues met now with Allan and an employee of American policy team of Facebook in Vienna. Schrems spoke earlier of Negotiations, Facebook only of Conversations.The 24-year old student Facebook blamed a reinterpretation of European data protection law after the meeting. For Facebook, a consent to the use of data would be already before if user is not explicitly contrary to this. This procedure is known as opt-out. His counter proposal is one of the mandatory implementation of opt - in procedure, according to which a user of respective data use must first explicitly agree.Schrems was concerned also about various technical problems in data processing and unclear responsibilities. In particular the definitive cancellation of data should prove to be difficult in the implementation. Currently, users can delete although their own data from their profiles. In the databases of the company they are still stored may. This had on Monday also the blog Ars Technica reports: who have a direct link to a photo file, the image in some cases even three years after he has deleted it on Facebook's servers found. Facebook promised Schrems a rapid Nachbesserung.Laut of a company news release is Facebook anxious, and the conversation in Vienna is a useful part of this process to resolve the points of criticism that we have received through the Office of the Irish data protection Commissioner (DPC). The company had already begun to implement the comprehensive programme on privacy improvements, which was elaborated in the audit report of DPC in December. This audit report is the first report of the Irish data protection authority DPC, which they had published in December after a comprehensive audit. So should some IP addresses that logged out users as well as non-members about the like me button on thousands sites is collected, made anonymous after ten days and will be deleted after 90 days.Formal decision by the DPC gefordertInsgesamt sees Schrems however have implemented maximum ten percent of the claims in the report. In spite of the positive action interview on Monday, he demands a formal decision from the DPC. The parties involved in the Irish District Court can litigate against them.The outcome could have worldwide effect on Facebook. According to the terms and conditions of the company all users outside of the United States and Canada have a contract with Facebook Ireland. Thus, says Schrems, applicable European data protection law for users outside Europe. It was very clear that Facebook has a strong interest in seriously to comply with the European legislation, both Facebook representatives have said that this will be still a long process, it says in a note of his initiative. A detailed log of the conversation on Monday will publish them soon.
