Facebook Joins 20 Others Taking France To Court
Facebook and 20 other companies are filing a complaint to France's highest court challenging a decree requiring them to retain web users' personal data for a year.
Facebook and 20 other companies are filing a complaint to France’s highest court challenging a decree requiring them to retain web users’ personal data for a year.
No, you didn’t misread that: The decree published barely a month ago requires companies to retain user data for a year, according to AFP.
This rule requires all websites engaged in commerce, along with music or video sharing destinations and even email services, to keep a a set of data about customers for possible subpoena by police or officials of tax, customs, or social security authorities.
The data to be archived includes users’ full names, possible pseudonyms, postal addresses, email, telephone numbers, passwords and what amounts to the answers to security questions created for account recovery and modification.
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