German State Turns Up Heat Vs. Facebook On Real Names Issue
The data-protection commissioner for the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Thilo Weichert, took his campaign against Facebook’s insistence that users provide their real names up a notch, threatening to fine the social network £16,000 ($20,877) if it refuses to abolish that policy.
The data-protection commissioner for the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Thilo Weichert, took his campaign against Facebook’s insistence that users provide their real names up a notch, threatening to fine the social network £16,000 ($20,877) if it refuses to abolish that policy.
The Guardian reported that Weichert sent letters to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., and Facebook Ireland headquarters in Dublin to that effect, and he said in a statement:
It is unacceptable that a U.S.
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