Facebook unreasonable procedure will be punished

According to foreign media reports, a German government data protection Agency said in Wednesday that the agency has taken legal action against Facebook and accused Facebook of illegally reading and saving personal information from users who do not use the social networking site.

Johannes Caspar, Johannes Caspar, the Hamburg Data protection office, said that since Facebook had collected and saved personal information about users who did not use the social networking site without user permission, the Hamburg data Protection Office had started legal proceedings This has to do with action that could lead to Facebook being fined in euros. Casper in a statement: "We believe that in this case, the conduct of the preservation of third-party data violates the data privacy law and should be penalized." ”

Facebook can make a formal response before August 11, and the Hamburg Data Protection Office will decide whether to take further action based on Facebook's response.

Germany has the strictest privacy laws in the world, which specify what information citizens can read from others. In addition, Germany has also launched a survey of Google Street View collection of user data.

This April, Facebook changed its privacy settings to allow users to prevent others from viewing contacts in e-mail. However, Casper said the contacts previously stored by Facebook had not been cleared and used for commercial purposes. "The system is designed to benefit Facebook," Casper said in an interview. ”

Casper said the Hamburg data Protection Office has received complaints from many people that Facebook obtained their names and e-mail addresses through their e-mail contacts and then contacted them.

Casper did not give a specific complaint about Facebook, but said the complaints showed that Facebook stored third party data for its own commercial purposes. "Given the millions of Facebook users in Germany, this is a very disturbing situation," he said. ”

Irse Aigner Ilse Aigner, the German consumer protection minister, said last month that she planned to write off her Facebook account because the social networking site's user data protection measures were still inadequate.