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Facebook Being Sued By Europe

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  • 21-08-2014 6:42pm
    #1
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭


    This is something interesting I found, there is an Austrian group suing Facebook Ireland for breaching that privacy laws/data protection.

    Basically because Facebook Europe is headquartered in Ireland it must abide by European law which, this groups claims is not.

    It already has over 60,000 supporters and the Irish court has 4 weeks to respond.

    All the details are here and you can sign up here aswell.

    Link to Silicon Republic where it's reported here.

    So what do the people of AH think? Are you still even on Facebook?

    Discuss :)
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    #2
    Chance The Fapper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 628 ✭✭✭Chance The Fapper


    I think it's great that people are doing something to stand up against the corporate overlords who think they have the right to snoop on every detail of our lives. I deleted my facebook two years ago.

    EDIT:

    Signed up, and then saw this :D
    With each current signatory expecting to receive €500 each, this would put the lawsuit at a total of €12.5m, which could rise if the lawsuit garners more claimants.


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    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Chance The Fapper wrote: »
    I think it's great that people are doing something to stand up against the corporate overlords who think they have the right to snoop on every detail of our lives. I deleted my facebook two years ago.

    EDIT:

    Signed up, and then saw this :D

    Yeah... That's definitely some incentive.


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    Lucifer MorningStar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭Lucifer MorningStar


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    This is something interesting I found, there is an Austrian group suing Facebook Ireland for breaching that privacy laws/data protection.

    Basically because Facebook Europe is headquartered in Ireland it must abide by European law which, this groups claims is not.

    It already has over 60,000 supporters and the Irish court has 4 weeks to respond.

    All the details are here and you can sign up here aswell.

    Link to Silicon Republic where it's reported here.

    So what do the people of AH think? Are you still even on Facebook?

    Discuss :)

    Yes hun xx


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    #5
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,793 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN!....

    Deee deeee dEEEEE duuuuuu


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw


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    #6
    Its Only Ray Parlour
    Registered Users Posts: 393 ✭✭Its Only Ray Parlour


    I signed up. Been on Facebook since 2009 and feel very exploited by them using my personal information!


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    #7
    123balltv
    Registered Users Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭123balltv


    It's like suing tobacco companies after you get lung cancer
    I'm not on facebook because I like my privacy


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    #8
    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    What exactly did people think was private about Facebook?


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    Chance The Fapper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 628 ✭✭✭Chance The Fapper


    Frank Lee Midere wrote: »
    What exactly did people think was private about Facebook?

    It's fair to sign up to the website and expect that they won't sell your information.
    Or track you even when you're logged out


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    Frank Lee Midere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,780 ✭✭✭Frank Lee Midere


    Chance The Fapper wrote: »
    It's fair to sign up to the website and expect that they won't sell your information.
    Or track you even when you're logged out

    I am seriously selling my shares in google if this wins.


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    #11
    ardle1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    FB should be over 25's....
    No kids should have the availability to broadcast anything and everything(may it be about family or friends)all over the Globe..
    Anyway I don't have a FB account, I deleted about 3 years ago when a friend of mine posted a photo of himself giving the two fingers sideways across his chest, yeah he was 35 at the time... Bless him:rolleyes:


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    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »
    Yes hun xx

    I said Facebook not Bebo boo :*

    Haha


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    #13
    experiMental
    Registered Users Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭experiMental


    Serves them right. If they are overstepping boundaries, they have to be punished


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    #14
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    I wonder will this actually go through.

    €500 from a multi billion dollar company sounds like a great thing :pac:

    Will send them a string message too.


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    Putin
    Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Putin


    How come you can't change your email address on FB? I don't have an a account, but a workmate was giving out about it yesterday and wrecking my head. I told him to contact FB and change his original email address but he said you can't. Seemed a bit weird I thought. Is FB that controlling, that you can't even change your own original email address?


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    #16
    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    Signed up there, quids in


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    #17
    Dowl88
    Closed Accounts Posts: 167 ✭✭Dowl88


    I just took a dump and mailed it to Mark Zuckerberg


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    #18
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Dowl88 wrote: »
    I just took a dump and mailed it to Mark Zuckerberg

    Did you pay for express postage?

    Hope he gets it soon the c*nt haha


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    #19
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Just curious --- who gets the money when sued ?


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    #20
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    What if they counter sue and win?


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    #21
    VinLieger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,941 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    AlanS181824 wrote: »
    Basically because Facebook Europe is headquartered in Ireland it must abide by European law which, this groups claims is not.

    Actually as its European headquarters are in Ireland as far as data protection goes it needs to operate by Irish laws, that is the European Law


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    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    Doom wrote: »
    What if they counter sue and win?

    They haven't a leg to stand on.

    This group has proof that if you poke someone on Facebook and then unpoke Facebook still has a record of that happening even though they shouldn't.

    I believe it's the same for a like or share.

    That is not abiding by data protection laws.

    They're trying to teach them that the NSA and all that stupid stuff won't cut it here in Europe.

    Oh and if they win everyone gets €500 who participated :)

    Win Win.


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    #23
    Rucking_Fetard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,260 ✭✭✭Rucking_Fetard


    FB keeps a record of everything you type but dont ultimately post aswell.


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    #24
    same ol sh1te
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭same ol sh1te


    Rucking_Fetard wrote: »
    FB keeps a record of everything you type but dont ultimately post aswell.

    The like button also spys on you, reports back every page you visit that has a like button, don't even need to like the page, they know you visited it


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    #25
    maccored
    Registered Users Posts: 10,664 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    welcome the web. sites have been tracking people and using their personal information long before facebook arrived.


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    #26
    Chance The Fapper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 628 ✭✭✭Chance The Fapper


    maccored wrote: »
    welcome the web. sites have been tracking people and using their personal information long before facebook arrived.

    Name three sites that tracked you on sites they did not own, long before Facebook


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    #27
    DLMA23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 296 ✭✭DLMA23


    This is the only social medium I have ever signed up to, more a lifetime lurker than a participator


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    #28
    Me?
    Registered Users Posts: 269 ✭✭Me?


    Lots of people on facebook don't understand privacy. If they did my interest would fade.


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    #29
    intellectual dosser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭intellectual dosser


    Banning Facebook would be a one stroke act of increasing GDP output by 15-20%


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    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    same ol sh1te wrote: »
    The like button also spys on you, reports back every page you visit that has a like button, don't even need to like the page, they know you visited it

    oh crap....Boards are in on it too. Dang Share and Tweet buttons at the top of each page.


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    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    ardle1 wrote: »
    FB should be over 25's....
    No kids should have the availability to broadcast anything and everything(may it be about family or friends)all over the Globe..
    Anyway I don't have a FB account, I deleted about 3 years ago when a friend of mine posted a photo of himself giving the two fingers sideways across his chest, yeah he was 35 at the time... Bless him:rolleyes:

    :rolleyes:


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