Facebook Privacy Audit. Many more to come.

October 03, 2011

One of the first large scale privacy audits in Europe is about to happen to Facebook.

The Irish data protection commissioner is to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook’s activities outside the US and Canada after an Austria-based group called Europe versus Facebook made 22 complaints.

In a 14-page letter the campaigners – which include EPIC, the Center for Digital Democracy and Consumer Action – also raised concerns about Facebook’s use of cookies to track users’ browsing even when they are logged out of the social network.

"concerns about Facebook’s use of cookies to track users’ browsing even when they are logged out of the social network."

Facebook’s European headquarters are in Dublin, which makes its operations outside the US and Canada subject to Irish and European data protection legislation.

This is likely the high profile privacy audit that will open alot of eyes across the EU and the UK to the realities of data privacy enforcement.

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More reading on the Facebook privacy audit:

Facebook faces flood of access requests, new Irish privacy audit

Facebook faces scrutiny over privacy

Facebook Targeted in Group Privacy Suit Over Internet Tracking