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France Launches Second Salvo Against Facebook (liberation.fr)

Posted by timothy on from the destroyers-vs-creators dept.

Eunuchswear writes: After Mondays decision by the French CNIL (National Center for Computers and Freedom) that Facebook must stop tracking non-users, the DGCCRF (General Direction for Competition, Consumption and Repression of Fraud), has ruled that Facebooks terms of use are abusive and must be changed within 60 days." The linked story is in French, but for those of us who don't speak the language, Google translate works. Here's the DGCCRF's Facebook page.

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  1. how about other third-party tracking? by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Knowing nothing about French law, is there anything Facebook-specific that led to this ruling? Is there a reason it wouldn't apply to other third-party tracking? For example Doubleclick and those kinds of networks track me across the web even if I've never signed up for an account with them or otherwise accepted their ToS.

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    1. Re:how about other third-party tracking? by aliquis · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Why care about Facebook anyway?

      * It clearly doesn't care about privacy.
      * It have no consistent behavior for what it allows and not (report one post/group once and it likely remain, have lots of people do it and it's removed.)
      * It don't provide much freedom and don't act as an enabling medium for expressing your opinion and hence does not help with the lack of freedom of speech in Europe.
      * It's run by a migration activist who want to fight Europeans who want to have their people, culture, society and self-rule intact and protect themselves against foreign invasion.

      Sure it has better coverage but it's only coverage of politically correct content so that's a negative.

      I use Twitter because the freedom is much greater there.
      I would had wanted complete freedom of speech and less government and full anonymity though.