Europe-v-Facebook, the privacy campaign group, has announced that it plans to take legal action against Facebook in Ireland and has criticised the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) for what it claims is the ODPC’s failure to regulate Facebook’s privacy issues.

The ODPC published an initial audit of Facebook in December 2011 followed by a review of Facebook’s implementation of its “best practice” recommendations in September 2012. The privacy campaign group has criticised the ODPC’s audit, claiming it did not delve deep enough into a number of issues and it accused the ODPC of departing from EU law in its interpretation of the data protection rules. Read full article here.

Contributed by John Magee.

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