Is Facebook Breaking German Law?

Many have questioned Facebook’s decision to place users’ faces on ads within the social network. Just last week, their decision to do so resulted in a lawsuit for Blockbuster. Facebook has just taken their policy one step further by leveraging users to promote their own site outside of Facebook. This morning one of my German readers, Ibrahim Evsan sent me a link to his article highlighting how Facebook was now using his name to promote the site on Google.

I immediately went to go see if I was showing up in ads in Google but alas, I was not as fortunate as my friend Ibrahim.

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