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Latest tech/privacy news on yahoo;
Thilo Weichert, the state of Schleswig-Holstein's data protection commissioner, has recently ordered state/gov institutions to shut down fan pages on Facebook and remove the 'Like button' from their websites. The statement Weichert issued is that the 'Like button' leads to viewer profiling and that this violates German and European privacy laws.
Further reading:
news.yahoo.com/german-privacy-watchdog-dislikes-facebooks 'like'
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Thilo Weichert, the state of Schleswig-Holstein's data protection commissioner, has recently ordered state/gov institutions to shut down fan pages on Facebook and remove the 'Like button' from their websites. The statement Weichert issued is that the 'Like button' leads to viewer profiling and that this violates German and European privacy laws.
Further reading:
news.yahoo.com/german-privacy-watchdog-dislikes-facebooks 'like'
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