“German data protection officials today accused Facebook of ‘illegally compiling a vast photo database of users without their consent’ and demanded that the social network destroy its archive of files based on facial recognition technology. Facebook claims it doesn’t have to do that, in part because the data collection is legal in Ireland, where Facebook’s European operations are based. While Facebook isn’t backing down, it has made one small concession by agreeing to suspend the tagging feature for Europeans who joined Facebook on or after July 1.”
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