This court ruling may have some implications not only for social network Facebook but also others like Google, although experts are still busy studying & understanding it. A European court has ruled that the administrator of a fan page on FB is “jointly responsible” along with the social network for the processing of the data of visitors to the page.
The court has placed the reponsbility of both parties, but with a small though important cavet – the court also emphasized that “the existence of joint responsibility does not necessarily imply equal responsibility of the various operators involved in the processing of personal data”.
Facebook fan page operator has privacy responsibilities: EU court – Reuters
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Facebook fan page operator has privacy responsibilities: EU court … – Business Insider
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Europe’s top court has just blown a big hole in Facebook’s fan-page … – ZDNet
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Some privacy controversies FB finds itself in of late
Facebook gave data access to Chinese firm flagged by US intelligence – CNBC
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Washington sues Facebook and Google over failure to disclose political ad spending – TechCrunch
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