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The administrator of a fan page on Facebook is jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of data of visitors to the page, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently concluded. The right of an individual to have his or her personFan pages and data protection
The administrator of a fan page on Facebook is jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of data of visitors to the page, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently concluded. The right of an individual to have his or her personal data protected is clearly enshrined within the EU’s legal system. The recently enacted General Data Protection Regulation, commonly known as GDPR, and its predecessor, the EU Directive on data protection, ensure that the data relating to an individual is treated with the utmost respect and safeguarded against abuse. The facts of this case were briefly as follows. A German company offers educational services inter alia by means of a fan page hosted on Facebook. Administrators of fan pages can obtain anonymous statistical data on visitors to the fan pages via a function called ‘Facebook Insights’ which Facebook makes available to them free of charge under non-negotiable conditions of use. The German data protection supervisory authority ordered the German company to deactivate its fan page. According to the authority, neither the company nor Facebook informed visitors to the fan page that Facebook, by means of cookies,... Read more