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Facebook Could Face EU Sanctions If It Doesn't Change Its TOS (theverge.com)
According to Reuters, Facebook could face sanctions for not complying with the European Union's consumer rules. "Back in February, the company was told to change its users terms and conditions to recently updated EU standards, but it has yet to do so," The Verge reports. From the report: In February, Facebook changed its terms of service, but to EU officials, it wasn't enough. "While Google's latest proposals appear to be in line with the requests made by consumer authorities, Facebook and, more significantly, Twitter, have only partially addressed important issues about their liability and about how users are informed of possible content removal or contract termination," the European Commission stated in a press release at the time.
As detailed back in February, authorities want Facebook to better protect consumers' rights, including the ability to withdraw from an online purchase, sue in Europe and not in California where Facebook is based. The EU also wants more consumer-friendly rules around the social media platform's legal liability when its service performs poorly. According to Reuters, Facebook's non-compliance contrasts with Airbnb's obedience, as the rental platform adjusted its terms of service recently after being asked to do so back in July. Airbnb is now more transparent about pricing details and has better terms for consumers using its platform in the EU.
As detailed back in February, authorities want Facebook to better protect consumers' rights, including the ability to withdraw from an online purchase, sue in Europe and not in California where Facebook is based. The EU also wants more consumer-friendly rules around the social media platform's legal liability when its service performs poorly. According to Reuters, Facebook's non-compliance contrasts with Airbnb's obedience, as the rental platform adjusted its terms of service recently after being asked to do so back in July. Airbnb is now more transparent about pricing details and has better terms for consumers using its platform in the EU.
You'd be surprised about how many things you might think are US but which have European origin.
Just in the city where I live, we have Spotify, Skype, Mojang, development centres for HTC, Sony and Huawei, and the bulk of Oracle's Java development. MySQL is an hour away.
As to music: A few blocks from where I live is an music studio, operated by Max Martin who produced Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry among others... i.e. the most successful US pop artists of the last decade. Made in Europe.
And yeah, the WWW was developed at CERN. Guess what the E stands for.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
The EU is terrible because of all their bullshit regulation that they put in place while large swathes of the countries are against it.
Just look at the recent link tax, the forced migration policies, the TPP (or was it TTIP?). People hate it so much that even the people voting on it are not allowed to have copies so they can't leak it to the populace and cause an uproar.
What the hell kind of government is that?
Now we have germany constantly pushing for a 4th Reich style EU army.
Junker is threatening to ban English because he is ass blasted that no one likes french and he wants to teach the brits a lesson for daring to try to leave.
The EU is a giant shit show.
The only good things about it are the ability to travel within europe, easily work anywhere, and use the same currency everywhere.
All the other shit is not needed. I don't know exactly what EU leadership is trying to create but I think it can only fall apart.
There is no "European identity", so turning it into a single country will never work.
And the process they call "democracy" is laughable.
Sure, we get to vote for the MEPs, but then they hamstring everything so much that they have very little influence.
There was an issue recently where one of them explained how voting works there, and it comes down to basically keeping you locked up until you get a yes vote.
WTF is that?