Facebook May Face Legislative Action In Europe For Child Protection Issues

Authorities in Europe are not happy with the level of teen privacy and security measures put in place by Facebook. Speaking at the Safer Internet Day Initiative, Viviane Reding – European commissioner for the information society, said that the Social Networking site should tighten up its privacy settings to protect the children.

European Commission for Information Society wanted to pass a legislation to force the required privacy changes for children, however, the Commission was stopped short of doing that – as 25 of the most popular social networking sites in Europe joined forces and pledged to improve their privacy policies.