Comments on: Facebook’s European Privacy Problem http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/ 12 City Gate, Lower Bridge St, Dublin 8, Ireland. Ph:01 6351580 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:41:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: mer kalkanlı http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3339 mer kalkanlı Mon, 26 May 2008 12:23:48 +0000 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/#comment-3339 please i need your help.my facebook account disabled.i must enter my account help me please help me.it is mertkalkanli@hotmail.com please i need your help.my facebook account disabled.i must enter my account help me please help me.it is mertkalkanli@hotmail.com

]]> By: Nick http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3216 Nick Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:02:12 +0000 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/#comment-3216 Interesting post - thank you. I am a UK citizen, and have over the past couple of weeks been wrestling with Facebook to get them to delete all the personal data they hold on me. I have repeatedly hit the "If we deactivate your account no other user can see it" response, which isn't what I want. I finally got a response from them that they have deleted my personal details, but I do of course have no way of checking if they are telling the truth, or just saying this to shut me up. I am happy to share the details of the correspondance with you if it is of interest - you have my email address. Interesting post – thank you. I am a UK citizen, and have over the past couple of weeks been wrestling with Facebook to get them to delete all the personal data they hold on me. I have repeatedly hit the “If we deactivate your account no other user can see it” response, which isn’t what I want.
I finally got a response from them that they have deleted my personal details, but I do of course have no way of checking if they are telling the truth, or just saying this to shut me up.
I am happy to share the details of the correspondance with you if it is of interest – you have my email address.

]]> By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3199 Bernie Goldbach Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:39:53 +0000 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/#comment-3199 You might have illuminated issues relevant to due diligence on the part of Facebook's European fishing team. You might have illuminated issues relevant to due diligence on the part of Facebook’s European fishing team.

]]> By: Daragh O Brien http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3198 Daragh O Brien Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:43:03 +0000 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/#comment-3198 Excellent and informative post Simon. There are some 'best practice' issues as well regarding Facebook's Governance of its information that I am scratching some notes out about for a post over on my <a href="http://www.obriend.info" rel="nofollow">blog</a>. Excellent and informative post Simon.

There are some ‘best practice’ issues as well regarding Facebook’s Governance of its information that I am scratching some notes out about for a post over on my blog.

]]> By: Thomas Otter http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3195 Thomas Otter Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:46:47 +0000 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/#comment-3195 Simon, Excellent post, and it helps clear up any debate on the relevance of EU law for Facebook. Your section on domestic use exception would have been most useful a week or so ago... "It should be clear that a PR person dealing with their address book falls outside this exemption, but that it allows for private people to keep a gmail address book, and even perhaps to check it against membership of Facebook, provided that action is entirely personal or domestic. If a person is in a business where networking or keeping connections was required for their work, it is likely that this would fall outside the remit of the above exemption. I wonder if the courts would view 5000 friends as a "domestic" matter, never mind the testing an application bit in the incident to which I referred... Thomas Simon,
Excellent post, and it helps clear up any debate on the relevance of EU law for Facebook.

Your section on domestic use exception would have been most useful a week or so ago…

“It should be clear that a PR person dealing with their address book falls outside this exemption, but that it allows for private people to keep a gmail address book, and even perhaps to check it against membership of Facebook, provided that action is entirely personal or domestic. If a person is in a business where networking or keeping connections was required for their work, it is likely that this would fall outside the remit of the above exemption.

I wonder if the courts would view 5000 friends as a “domestic” matter, never mind the testing an application bit in the incident to which I referred…

Thomas

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-3194 Dennis Howlett Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:08:23 +0000 http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2008/01/20/facebooks-european-privacy-problem/#comment-3194 A superb summary of the position and one I will use in a forthcoming post. Thank you. A superb summary of the position and one I will use in a forthcoming post. Thank you.

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