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FACEBOOK IRELAND HAS been given four weeks to respond to a claim that it violated a number of data protection laws.
The Vienna Regional Court has reviewed a class action against the company has ordered the company’s international headquarters to submit a counter-statement otherwise it will make a judgement in its absence.
The class action privacy suit, filed by the group Europe vs Facebook, claims that Facebook committed a number of privacy violations such as its involvement with the US National Security Agency (NSA) in running PRISM, and tracking users’ visits to other websites via the ‘Like’ button.
In a statement, Europe vs Facebook said that Facebook Ireland may be able to get an extension of the time limit which would extend it to another four weeks.
The suit, which is headed by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems, saw 25,000 people from more than 100 countries sign up.
Schrems is also involved in another case concerning Facebook pending at the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Back in June, a case involving the Irish Data Commissioner’s decision not to investigate Facebook over its involvement with PRISM, was referred to the ECJ by the Irish High Court.
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Doesn’t the Queen and the leader of the moral high ground Merl strep swear by him
That’s good enough for me
@The Grand Nagus: she felt Roman gud enough to lead the standing ovation, and den lectures people on morals, jesus wept
How respected people like Kate Winslet and Adrien Brody can shake a hand they know has been used to molest a child and say “Can I have a job please, sir?” is beyond me.
@Simon Griffin: they’re s(um and nothing more, the little bit I read into the case was horrifying to say the least
It’s not an award Roman Polanski deserves but castration and not chemically either .
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.
Good old feminists mess everything up
@Paul O Faolain: Eh, you know that by making that comment you’ve endorsed 44 yr old men sleeping with 13 yr old girls (he actually raped her). I’d go slither back under the rock you’ve emerged from ya absolute scarlet.
@Padro Touche: drugged her too
@Padro Touche: but pedro hes an artist and they’re to be held to a different standard, didnt u get the memo
“Strange ,I’ve seen that face before ,seen him hanging round my door .Like a hawk waiting for the prey and the night waiting for the day “
-Grace Jones
-song from Frantic
He should be locked up and the key thrown away
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