Facebook's privacy statement dosn't mention selling of data, but it does state that it shares annoymised information with 3rd parties for advertising and marketing purposes.
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Also says that it's party to the EU safe harbour privacy agreement. Does that mean that they have obligations under european dpa's?
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I don't know enough about EU law but certainly what you've said makes
sense.
I wonder if they are making use of any servers in the UK for the
purposes of storing/routing data? I think that if there are comms
devices being used in the UK by facebook, then DPA certainly will
apply...
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A company may not be based in the the UK or EU, but if they 'market
into' the European Community, I would submit that EU law applies to
them.
Ekin Caglar wrote:
> Their domain name is registered to:
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> What made you think that they are based in the UK?
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> I have heard a rumour that Facebook, the social networking service,
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> rumour? I believe Facebook is UK based, so are they likely to be in
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