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:
> TheFacebook, Inc
> 156 University
Ave, 3rd Floor
> Palo Alto, CA 94301
> US
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> What made
you think that they are based in the UK?
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> E
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> I have heard a rumour that Facebook, the
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> makes some of its money by selling personal
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> rumour? I believe Facebook is UK based,
so are they likely to be in
> breach of the DPA if they do
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