The European Commission (EC), the governing body of 27 European member states, wants non-European businesses and social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, that store information on European citizens, to be subject to updated European data protection laws.
The European Commission’s justice commissioner Viviane Reding met with German Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner, said in a joint statement:
“We both believe that companies who direct their services to European consumers should be subject to EU data protection laws. Otherwise, they should not be able to do business on our internal market. This also applies to social networks with users in the EU. We have to make sure that they comply with EU law and that EU law is enforced, even if it is based in a third country and even if its data are stored in a cloud”.
But social networks like Twitter and Facebook could face extreme difficulty in complying with the new law.
Two excerpts from the statement should send shivers down the spine of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. His company was recently found under the privacy spotlight, after one Austrian student disclosed the vast amount of data the social network has on its users, even after the data was seemingly deleted.
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Source: zdnet.com
By: Zack Whittaker
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