German Court: Companies With Pages Not Responsible For What Facebook Does With User Data

A November 2011 order by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ULD) for the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany that ordered companies to deactivate their Facebook pages was overturned Wednesday by the Administrative Court of Schleswig-Holstein, IDG News Service reported.

A November 2011 order by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ULD) for the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany that ordered companies to deactivate their Facebook pages was overturned Wednesday by the Administrative Court of Schleswig-Holstein, IDG News Service reported.

In its 2011 order, the ULD stated that Facebook violated Germany’s data-protection laws by collecting users’ personal data from pages and using those data for its own purposes, adding that companies with pages were partially responsible, according to IDG News Service.

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