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Facebook settles with Germany over Friend Finder issue

Posted on January 25, 2011July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Jeremy Kirk reports:

Germany is stopping short of legal action against Facebook after reaching a 14-point agreement on Monday over how the site handles data from non-Facebook users.

Hamburg’s Data Protection Authority took issue with Facebook last August over its Friend Finder feature, which imports e-mail addresses from user contact lists on other e-mail services and then sends out invitations to non-Facebook users to join the site.

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