Social networking sites are legally responsible for their users’ privacy, Europe’s privacy watchdogs have confirmed. A committee of data protection regulators has said that the sites are ‘data controllers’, with all the legal obligations that brings. Users of the sites are also data controllers with legal obligations when they are posting on behalf of a…
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The Privacy Implications of “Friending” the White House (Part II)
Danielle Ctiron blogs on Concurring Opinions: Since I last wrote about President Obama’s Facebook friends, Government 2.0 has steadily progressed. Since early May, our Commander-in-Chief has added more than 150,000 new friends. The FDA has initiated its Transparency Blog and will soon add a Twitter feed and Facebook page. More state agriculture agencies reach the…