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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10493

11 November 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (ae) ep/jha
Data protection - Facebook in EP sights

Brussels, 10/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - After coming under scrutiny from Commissioner Viviane Reding, American social networking site Facebook is now in the European Parliament's sights. MEP Françoise Castex (S&D, France) has put down a written question for the European Commission asking about Facebook's compliance with European data protection laws.

Castex, who is the rapporteur on the forthcoming review of the 1995 data protection directive, is concerned that “Facebook retains users'...

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