Germany Takes Steps Against Facebook Over Privacy

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BERLIN - A German data protection official said Wednesday he launched legal proceedings against Facebook, which he accused of illegally accessing and saving personal data of people who don't use the social networking site.

Johannes Caspar, head of the Hamburg office for data protection, said it had initiated legal steps that could result in Facebook being fined tens of thousands of euros for saving private information of individuals who don't use the site and haven't granted it access to their details.

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Germany Takes Steps Against Facebook Over Privacy

"We consider the saving of data from third parties, in this context, to be against data p...

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