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German agency may fine Facebook over program

Posted on November 10, 2011July 2, 2025 by Dissent

Ah, if it’s Thursday, Facebook must be in trouble with German data protection again.

Bloomberg reports:

Facebook Inc. may be fined by a German data-protection agency over a feature that uses facial-recognition software to suggest people to tag in photos on its social-networking site.

Facebook introduced the feature in Europe “without informing users or getting the required consent” it is obliged to under European Union and German laws, the Hamburg data- protection authority said in a statement on its website Thursday.

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