35 Privacy Changes Facebook Must Make In Europe

Facebook and the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner publicly released the results of a detailed three-month audit of the social network's privacy policies in the European Union region, but what steps did the social network agree to implement?

Facebook and the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner publicly released the results of a detailed three-month audit of the social network’s privacy policies in the European Union region, but what steps did the social network agree to implement?

Facebook’s European headquarters are in Dublin, Ireland, which explains why the authorities over there get to dictate the social network’s entire plan for the continent.

That said, here are the policy changes Facebook promised to ma,e grouped by the dates set as delivery goals.

Immediately

  1. Facebook is taking steps to limit data collection from social plug-ins, restricting access to such data, and moving to delete such data according to a retention schedule.
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