European regulators eye privacy at Facebook, Twitter – San Francisco Business Times:
by corkie on Jun.24, 2009, under Twitter
Regulators in Europe want better privacy protection by Facebook Inc., Twitter and similar social networks, fearing information about people could be misused.
Palo Alto’s Facebook gives marketers access to some data about users so that they can create applications aimed at them and try to sell them stuff. Europe’s “Article 29 working party,” which oversees privacy, warned that such uses might violate European privacy rules.
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