“There actually was a concerted collective action among five European, France, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, which will coordinate national actions (…) in the responsibility of the Netherlands’ , said Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, during the presentation of the annual review of the CNIL. “The scope of action of each is not necessarily the same,” , she said, “but for most it is the privacy policy (Privacy Policy , Ed) Facebook is at the heart of debates “.
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The process ” comes Begin “ will build on the already completed against Google, said Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin. “This process worked and showed that when Europe speaks with one voice (…) it has a bargaining power with major global players” , she stressed .
Google had merged in 2012, the Privacy rules about sixty of its services. After a series of sanctions of various European authorities, who had held that those rules were not in accordance with law, the G29, a grouping of European CNIL had provided recommendations to the US giant to come into compliance. Thus, in the case of Facebook, data protection authorities could include interest at the intersection of data between multiple applications like Instagram or Whatsapp.
“These updates are consistent with law “
The leading social network stressed, meanwhile, have ” recently updated its rules and privacy policies to make them more clear and concise ” and said to “confident that these updates are in conformity with the law” , according to a spokesman.
“As a company that has its international headquarters in Dublin “ , says Facebook, ” we check our products and updates to our privacy policies, including the -C, with the Irish Commissioner for Data Protection “, which is responsible for the Facebook application of European legislation on data protection.
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