Facebook's use of personal data is illegal, German court rules

John Leonard
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Berlin legislators uphold complaint of German consumer groups about Facebook's privacy Ts&Cs

The default privacy settings and Facebook's uses of personal data contravene German consumer law, a regional court has ruled. In the latest of a long-running series of spats between the social m...

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