Internet without Borders complaint against Facebook

An association appealed to the CNIL. Internet Without Borders accuses Facebook of violating French law on data protection, including facial recognition on the billions of personal photos on servers in the Web 2.0 site.Certainly, Europe is not a haven for Facebook. After an investigation by the Irish data protection, and the remonstrances of Viviane Reding, who wants to change the European directives on the same personal information, the social network with 800 million members faces a complaint from a French association.Internet Sans Frontières has indeed enter the CNIL (National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms), accusing the company of Mark Zuckerberg to "wear many attacks on the protection of personal data in violation of the law 78-17 of 6 January 1978, known as Data Protection. " Several points are accused of the social network.
Illegal collection of personal dataThe association accuses Facebook to recover from "unfair and fraudulent" information about its members, including through "cookies zombies." Files that would be able to rebuild after deletion by the account holder. Similarly, the button Like, now on partner sites, will retrieve data on the browsing history of the Internet."These data are not only about Facebook account holders, whether or not connected to the platform, but they are also related to non-holders including Facebook retains data without their knowledge," says the association with a letter from the lawyer is available online.Internet Without Borders estimates that face recognition approaches developed by the site of a biometric technology. And that the state "Facebook has made the collection and treatment of billions of photographs of its users" without "the first having informed" or "required to have their express consent" to the implementation "of such a device intrusive. "The association also points out, according to the complaint filed in Ireland, the social network is suspected of collecting personal information from non-members, via file synchronization of address books or mobile webmail. Finally, the Internet Without Borders accuses Facebook to store and archive all requests made on behalf of people when looking on the Internet social network, without being members of the community.The agreement with the Federal Trade Commission does not changeOn data retention after deletion by users, the association points out that not only the data is still stored on Facebook servers, but they would not be on a separate server with limited access."The mutual agreement reached yesterday between the company and the Federal Trade Commission [FTC, Federal Trade Commission, note] is unsatisfactory with regard to the concerns and issues raised by this complaint. (...). Issues relating to the ownership of personal data, to protect the identity of users, tracking of [their] online activity remain unanswered, "said the association in a posting on its website.Indeed, according to several months of negotiations, the U.S. regulator and Facebook have reached a compromise focusing on contractual commitments. The network will, for example, obtain affirmative express consent from consumers before enacting changes that nullify their privacy preferences. And should be more transparent about how it collects data, including third-party applications.On his blog, Mark Zuckerberg has cracked a note: "We made some mistakes. I agree that Facebook will become the leader in terms of transparency and privacy control. "Measures and promises that do not alter the delicate position of the web site on the Old Continent.