Facebook Abuses ‘Quasi-Monopoly’ Status on User Data: Lawmaker
2015-01-29 13:43:33.53 GMT
By Stephanie Bodoni
(Bloomberg) -- Facebook is “abusing” its almost dominant
position and processes its users’ personal data without consent
to develop new business models, says Jan Philipp Albrecht, the
lead EU lawmaker on plans for new data protection rules.
* What Facebook is doing is “pure blackmail and isn’t in line
with EU data protection rules,” says Albrecht in e-mailed
statement on Thursday, commenting on Facebook’s revamped
policy for handling users’ photos and data
* Data protection watchdogs must “speedily” urge Facebook to
find an “acceptable regulation,” Albrecht says
* Facebook’s changes would give the company the right to use
information and images for commercial purposes; changes were
delayed until Jan. 30 from the start of the year
* SEE: Facebook’s Privacy Policy Reviewed by Hamburg Data
Regulator NSN NIW6EK6JIJVN<GO>
* SEE: Facebook Follows Google as Dutch Watchdog Probes
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2015-01-29 13:43:33.53 GMT
By Stephanie Bodoni
(Bloomberg) -- Facebook is “abusing” its almost dominant
position and processes its users’ personal data without consent
to develop new business models, says Jan Philipp Albrecht, the
lead EU lawmaker on plans for new data protection rules.
* What Facebook is doing is “pure blackmail and isn’t in line
with EU data protection rules,” says Albrecht in e-mailed
statement on Thursday, commenting on Facebook’s revamped
policy for handling users’ photos and data
* Data protection watchdogs must “speedily” urge Facebook to
find an “acceptable regulation,” Albrecht says
* Facebook’s changes would give the company the right to use
information and images for commercial purposes; changes were
delayed until Jan. 30 from the start of the year
* SEE: Facebook’s Privacy Policy Reviewed by Hamburg Data
Regulator NSN NIW6EK6JIJVN<GO>
* SEE: Facebook Follows Google as Dutch Watchdog Probes
Privacy NSN NGOS3Q6TTDSH<GO>
For Related News and Information:
First Word scrolling panel: FIRST<GO>
First Word newswire: NH BFW<GO>
To contact the reporter on this story:
Stephanie Bodoni in Luxembourg at +352-22-9999-5270 or
sbodoni@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Anthony Aarons at +44-20-3525-2227 or
aaarons@bloomberg.net